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...dozen other questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...appears to be nothing has an almost irresistible appeal. Within ten years Jewel Tea, by now a corporation branching far afield from Chicago, was taking in $1,000,000 annually. Last year, still operating on the simple principle of presenting the housewife with a good coffee pot, a good toaster or some Haviland china with her first order, Jewel Tea rolled up sales of $14,000,000, retained nearly $1,000,000 as profit. In the first half of this year it sold $9,000,000 of merchandise, about $1,500,000 more than in the same period...
...first 50 k.w.h. at 3? per k.w.h. ($1.50) which in the average home will operate lights, iron, toaster, percolator, vacuum cleaner for one month...
Perhaps there is a weakness in the Harvard man as a democrat, by a repressed desire for the attentions of body servants. The Yale Toaster guaranteed not to burn the bread, realized it when he said that a Harvard man never sees his janitor except when he comes home in the morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor...
...stop or start it. The tube can be attached, not merely to a washing machine, but to any household utility. The shadow of a housewife's hand while she waves goodby to her husband in the morning, will start the dishwasher, the electric iron; turn off the toaster. More than that, predicted Inventor Zworykin, the rays of the rising sun falling on a single Zworykin tube will shut the bedroom windows, start the coffee percolator, light the furnace, turn on the water in the bathtub, let out the dog, while the household snores abed...