Word: toasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take a piece of toast hot from the toaster tomorrow morning and lay it on a cold plate. When you pick it up you will note the plate is beaded with drops of moisture. And it won't be saliva. . . . The air the musician takes into his lungs is not saturated with saliva when he blows it into his horn, it is warmed in the lungs so that its natural moisture is more easily condensed when it passes into the cooler metal coils of the horn, and this natural moisture of the air (water) is what is precipitated within...
...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...