Word: pipeless
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Rhinestone Yo-Yos. COMPRE HOY Y PAGUE MANANA! shouts a huge sign atop Sears, Roebuck's mammoth Caracas department store: BUY TODAY AND PAY TOMORROW! On time payments, women in pipeless hillside shanties buy U.S.-made washing machines, and happily lug water in buckets on their heads to fill them. Specialty shops sell canned Spanish cuttlefish, rhinestone-studded yo-yos, TV sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis...
...quiet, hard-working head of Hammond Clock Co. of Chicago. Inventor Hammond has tinkered with electricity since he left Cornell in 1916. Though no bridge player, he invented a few years ago an electrical bridge table which shuffles and deals the cards. Though no musician, he saw that a pipeless organ would have many a practical advantage. Pipes require space, are expensive to install. Usually they anchor an organ for life, and changes in temperature will set them out of tune...
...Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer...
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