Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge buyers' listings. According to the Times, business was so active that no less than 4,181 buyers had registered in July, highest number since 1929. And the extraordinary influx of retailers' representatives seeking not only clothing for men, women & children but also jewelry, leather goods, draperies, toilet goods, toys, house furnishings, bedding, linen, fur coats, floor coverings, silverware, watches, stationery, continued to swell New York's population on into August...
...Jersey bankers met at Atlantic City to do the same thing. The Business & Professional Women's Clubs of New York State were busy at Saratoga Springs. In Manhattan, where 1,000 conventions are held every year, the perfume and cosmetic industry met to found an all-embracing Toilet Goods Association. The National Association of Purchasing Agents harkened to inflation warnings, and the American Scrap Exporters Conference learned that only 10% to 15% of the iron & steel junk shipped abroad went indirectly into armaments. The New York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual...
When he was a little boy, Grover Loening built model planes of bent wire and toilet paper, powered them with rubber bands, begged his mother to remove the chandeliers so they could fly better. One day in 1908 his mother took him to see a real airplane fly. The plane was wrecked because the propeller had been put on backward. Grover Loening (pron. Loaning) decided then & there to become an aviation engineer...
...Titian's Toilet of Venus...
...leather case, black, zipper front, containing a Gents Toilet...