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...while "chain creep"--the replacement of Mom-and-Pop stores with national chains--may raise the ire of local residents, it could lower the cost of living for students who find shopping in the Square more convenient...
According to Gladys "Pebble" Gifford, presidentof the Harvard Square Defense Fund, escalatingrents are forcing out Mom-and-Pop stores andallowing chain stores with more financialstability to move...
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...POP-UP-TOASTER In 1926 the Waters Genter Co. (later called Toastmaster) introduced the first pop-up toaster. Master mechanic Charles Strite had patented the spring-loaded automatic-toaster design in 1919. Although it cost $12.40, the Toastmaster quickly displaced the manual electric toaster that cost only...
...POP TOP CAN On a family picnic in 1959, Ermal Cleon Fraze found himself with a can of beer and no can, opener-one of life's major annoyances at the time. The solution came to him "just like that" one sleepless night. In 1963, Fraze, the founder of Dayton Reliable Tool Co., obtained the patent for a removable pull-tab opener for the tops of cans. Continental Can Co. created a nonremovable tab 16 years later...