Word: oven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modernist Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months, the glass cities will cost an estimated $25 million, partially financed by an $11 million, 20-year Equitable Life...
...Bureau of Study Counsel was organized in 1948 to fill the legitimate need of extra-curricular help for men with academic problems. Oven a period of sixty years an ever-increasing number of students had succumbed to the enticement of the tutoring schools, which, with their "Pay as You Pass" plans, had a business grossing $250,000 annually...
...that the cook can carry on a conversation from anywhere in the kitchen without touching the phone. Heavy roasts can be moved by nudging a traveling tray that hangs from the ceiling; food can be carried outdoors on a serving cart powered by a battery. With dual-control ovens, a meal can be started in the kitchen and finished from an adjoining patio. For barbecues in the house there is a special gadget that passes charcoal or hickory smoke through the oven...
...precleaning turkeys so that they can be shoved into the oven with little work beforehand, the Swansons changed turkey from a Thanksgiving dish to a year-round habit, thereby doubling U.S. turkey-eating. Last week, at their newest $2,000,000 plant at Modesto, Calif., the Swansons were getting into peak production of a new product: a pre-stuffed frozen turkey. In four months production has jumped 50%, to 15,000 birds a day. Last week, by adding a night shift, the Swansons boosted output to 18,000 (about 350,000 Ibs.) daily, and they still cannot catch up with...
...million in 1944. But the biggest jump came with peace, when the Swansons noted both the boom in home freezers and the shortage of domestic servants, brought out beef, chicken and turkey pies, new roast beef and fried chicken dinners, all ready for the oven. Their first frozen TV Dinner (sliced turkey on cornbread, buttered peas, sweet potatoes, gravy) now sells at the rate of 13 million a year. Total production: well over 10 million packages a month, from the production lines of plants at Omaha, Modesto, and Salisbury...