Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More often than not, today's maid-hunting housewife will not find just what she wants-she never could. The supermaid, the magnificent cook, the perfect butler have always been jewels beyond price; Catherine of Aragon had the same problem. The surprising thing is that the standard, oldtime maid of all work has practically disappeared from the U.S. scene. Like everybody else, the modern domestic is a specialist-or at least acts like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy...
...answers had better be good. All the standard lures-a private bath, a TV set, a good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid...
...Greenland. Even before the oilmen could place orders, the U.S. Defense Department asked De Long to use the same principle for a 1,000-ft. dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough...
...Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each; and Dean Martin plans to alternate with Polly Bergen. General Motors celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril Ritchard, Jimmy Durante, June Allyson, Bert Lahr, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, Marge and Gower Champion for its 75th birthday party. NBC will also spotlight the National Tennis singles, the World Series (in color), the Rose Bowl game, and Queen Elizabeth's U.S. visit. Such old perennials...
Lunchtime Conversion. Just as surprising as such programs is the fact that the Fish Creek audiences do not seem to miss the standard festival war horses -the ones Johnson fondly refers to as "the old guys." Not long after Johnson took over the Peninsula Festival five years ago, a local matron murmured to him: "Next summer we won't have any more of this, will...