Word: spinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Models. Their first big move was to introduce the small, low-priced ($500 and up) spinet, which has almost entirely replaced the oldfashioned, lumbering upright and the high-priced grand piano. (Manhattan's famed Steinway & Sons, however, still concentrates half its output on grand pianos, from $2,700 up, for the carriage and professional trade.) The second big step was to offer a wide selection of pianos. Chicago's mass-production piano makers, such as Wurlitzer, Kimball, and Story & Clark, now offer from 30 to 50 different styles and finishes apiece. Story & Clark, which last year brought...
...celebrate his 67th birthday, his office staff had already presented him with two birthday cakes. But the music men had a grander present: a full keyboard spinet, jointly built by the nation's leading piano manufacturers of woods, metals, ivory and wool gathered from nine of the United Nations. The President sat down, obviously pleased, and played the Little Fairy Waltz, a tinkling tune he had learned as a boy back in Independence...
...list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue...