Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Game. In the cluster of twelve companies these men boss, AVCO has a line of consumer's products ranging all the way from self-sterilizing toilet seats to marine engines.* It has a smoothly functioning distribution system to sell them. And it has a fat backlog in orders. But like every other company, it has had trouble getting into production to fill those orders. For the first nine months this year, the AVCO family turned out $100,000,000 worth of products, lost money doing it. But last month it appeared to have turned the corner, moved into...
Most books of this sort pass lightly over prehistoric times, deal rather with nations, kings and priests, beginning in the "dawn of history" and winding up in the age of the flush toilet. Stewart covers the same territory, but with an eye for different things...
...really understood why there are always such long lines of people in front of the newspaper kiosks. Copies of Pravda and Izvestia are posled every-where for anyone to read. Observation ou the train, however, shows that newspapers provide not only the intellectual nourishment for the people, but wrapping, toilet and cigaret paper as well...
...crude, pine-slab cabin without bath or toilet, a little old lady sat silently peeling grapefruit one day last week. Presently a car pulled up the mountain road and honked. The old lady put down the paring knife, daintily touched a smidgen of rouge to her cheeks, clutched a wide-brimmed red straw sailor and climbed...
...this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept Party assignments, I would make speeches. But it would be all playacting, strategy, while...