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...Crisis-conflicts" from the outside world kept popping up at Lake Success as abruptly as toast in a toaster. U.N. then sent such disagreeable matters to committee. Nobody had yet been able to make the result read like anything but disagreements in a committee meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Like Toast in a Toaster | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Chest, told their whole love story on the air, collected a four-chair dinette set, four pairs of nylons, two 17-jewel wrist watches, a woman's suit, two five-ply tires, a set of luggage, an electric iron, a man's shaving kit, a grill and toaster set, a waffle iron, a case of frozen peas and a case of corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Snort | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...says should be tried only with a doctor's advice: a corset-belt to fit the lower back; special shoes for flat feet-a common cause of back troubles; massages and home exercises; a horsehair mattress instead of an innerspring mattress; radiant heat, possibly an old-fashioned electric toaster; a fat-reducing diet; plenty of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: My Aching Back | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Instead of slapping down this dubious toaster, Franco answered: "Evolution, yes, even if it were only to let me rest. I want this evolution to be a quick one, but it is going to be myself who will say when and how it will be effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Evolution | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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