Word: toasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have an automatic toaster. 'They cost about $22, I guess,' she said. Her husband added: 'I could buy the damn thing tonight but I'm going to wait until the price goes down...
...Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster...
...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...
...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...
...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...