Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plastic knobs, handles and moldings often break almost as soon as the appliance is unpacked. Many appliances are unnecessarily hard to service. The company found one hand iron that took 40 minutes to take apart. Some modern toasters are riveted clear around, require $2.50 worth of labor before the serviceman can even get to the works, much less repair them. Many so-called "built-in" ranges and washer-dryer combinations are nothing more than standard, movable appliances with the casters removed, made to be serviced from the rear. When built in, they cannot be serviced without tearing them out from...
...lifelong newsman, whose family for the past 107 years has had a City of London monopoly on reporting news from small city courts, Hubble was first assigned to grapple with readers' problems in wartime, when he ran a serviceman's gripe column in the armed-forces paper, Union Jack. So successful was the column that at war's end, when the Union Jack's editor, a bright young Fleet Streeter named Hugh Cudlipp (now editorial director for the Mirror group) returned as editor of the Pictorial, he persuaded Hubble to run the readers' service bureau...
...court's decision has no effect on Girard, since Girard, a serviceman, has no right to trial by U.S. civil courts. Point at issue in his case: whether under the status-of-forces agreement he should be tried by a U.S. court-martial or a Japanese court for allegedly killing a Japanese woman on a U.S. Army rifle range...
...begin with, Huston picked players who were not only presold to the public but pre-studied in their parts as well. Deborah Kerr played a nun in Black Narcissus ; Robert Mitchum has done no fewer than four tours of duty as a cinema serviceman. Under Huston's sharp eye, they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen...
BLACK MARKET in 1957 U.S. autos is thriving in Japan with help of U.S. servicemen. Japan limits foreign auto imports to fewer than 1,000 a year, but permits a serviceman to import one U.S. car yearly, duty-free. Japanese dealers openly advertise $1,000 fee for homebound U.S. serviceman who will order new U.S. car and apply for Japanese license plates (for which he must present his discharge papers), turn car over to dealer, who can then sell it at huge profit...