Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
...tractors. Says he: "I don't think very many people down here buy magazines because they want the magazine. They get a monkey wrench or something and the magazine is thrown in ... I don't know what they do with the Farmer-stick it down the toilet, maybe . . . but they continue...
Goose & Killer. In Los Angeles, Policeman Ernest Young was suspended for taking from C. S. Smith Metropolitan Market, in addition to his usual free apple: two quarts of milk, a bottle of whisky, a loaf of bread, four rolls of toilet paper, and portions of toothpaste, shaving cream and skin cream...
...first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern...
...Dreyfuss, who had conceived the New York Central's first modern 20th Century trains, had many a supermodern ocean liner interior on the boards. Designer Teague's cozy lounges, snack bars and dressing rooms were already aloft in Boeing's new Stratocruiser. Not even the U.S. toilet had been neglected. Thanks to Designer Dreyfuss and the Crane Co., it was now available in form-fitting shapes...