Word: pram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive in the church only in pram, car or hearse, for their christening, marriage and burial.' There is much distrust ... of what are said to be the reactionary and hypocritical views of professed Christians. There is great ignorance ... A recent inquiry among secondary-school children in Leeds showed that to many of them . . . 'words such...
...Friend cannot help seeming a little thin and repetitious in spots. But for the most part it is not only amusing but appealing. Playwright Wilson, who is too young to have seen what he writes about except from his pram, plainly loves the thing he kills, fondles every last insipidity and cliche and gives them a kind of nitwitted charm. He is well served by the production and in particular by pretty, 19-year-old Actress Andrews. Very funny as a mincing, mousy-blonde ingenue, she is yet-without ever stepping out of character-an extremely winning and attractive girl...
...California's Glasspar Co., which started off with $1,000 capital in 1950, is up to $585,000 annual sales selling knockdown Fiberglas sports cars for $1,466.50, without engine. Michigan's Chris-Craft Corp. has 21 different do-it-yourself boat kits ranging from a $49 pram to a 21-ft., $814 express cruiser, now does 25% of its business in the do-it-yourself market...
What Next? Has the do-it-yourself boom reached its peak? No one thinks so -least of all the do-it-yourselfers. As their skills increase, they see themselves tackling bigger and bigger projects. The man who has put together an 8-ft. pram begins to leaf through plans for an 18-ft. outboard cruiser. The woman who has restuffed and recovered an old chair begins to wonder if she could not make a set of furniture for the dining room. Sales to the shoulder trade are climbing so fast that by 1960 the estimates are that they will...
...impregnated with paint ($2,885 without sails). Light, low-priced planing sailboats are coming into their own. Simplest of all is the surfboard-like Sailfish, from 10 ft. to 14 ft. ($179 to $295, or in a kit, $139.50 to $179.50). Roberts Industries has a tiny 8-ft. sailing pram, the Guppy, for $117.50 ($225 assembled...