Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the clutter of a dozen years, police found a chamber of horrors. Bernice Worden's body was strung up by the heels in a summer kitchen. It had been eviscerated and dressed out like a deer. Her severed head was in a cardboard box, her heart in a plastic bag on the stove. Around the house the police also found: ten skins of human heads, neatly separated from the skull; assorted pieces of human skin, some between the pages of magazines, some made into small belts, some used to upholster chair seats (the largest piece, rolled...
...which a child can learn to play such simple tunes as Oh! Susanna, Noel and Home, Sweet Home. This year's line of autos includes Louis Marx's battery-driven car ($23.95) which can be ridden by children from i^ to six, and Ideal's clear-plastic model ($14.95), complete with electrical and differential systems, operating pistons and fan belt-130 parts in all for a parent to help assemble. For the medieval set, there is a pair of remote-control jousting knights ($15.00) that charge each other with lances, light the winner's plume when...
...Mario Maccaferri, for instance, sells ukuleles. From the nadir of his career when he had to pawn his wife's jewels and was $500,000 in debt, he has developed an enterprise which manufactures 3500 ukes daily along with 500,000 clothespins, 129,000 tiles, 5000 reeds and 200 plastic guitars. The editors' character revelations, which are bound up with statistics, are usually more fascinating than the inventories. Though the Maccaferris like strumming a ukulele "the music that gives him and his wife most pleasure is the whir of the adding machines"--which last year rang up gross sales...
...case histories reveal interesting sidelights on American buying patterns. Joseph Josephson, who sells combination high-chairs and tables with sunshades and plastic bibs, has found that "when people have a new baby in the family they are really wonderful, generous, tolerant, and will provide the maximum." Over 8200 Americans own breeding chinchillas, "fecundity guaranteed," at over $1000 a pair...
...Seat. In Ahoskie, N.C., after city officials bought a dozen pairs of yellow plastic rain pants for the fire department, Chief J. D. Linkous noticed that inside each pair was a tag reading: "Do not use near heat...