Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and better machines. Corporations do up their prices, but trade-ins and retail discounts partly make up for the list-price increases. As a result, actual retail prices of goods average about the same now as four years ago. Some items are up, e.g., new cars and toilet articles, but others are down, e.g., furniture and toys. But non-goods prices are all up: laundry, 11%; rent, 12%; haircuts, 14%; transit fares, 20%; movie admissions, 20%; TV repairs, 25%. Non-goods are the "real villains" of the inflation story...
Britain's economizing Earl of Harewood, 34, eleventh in succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...
...life, the Rovensky mansion, with its deep-sunk. 6½-ft. marble tub serviced with brass swans' neck faucets and the 27-piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...Reds did their best to silence Don Domenico. They vainly invoked the law, then descended to petty harassment, e.g., denying the priest the use of the town-hall toilet, the only one near his quarters. They smeared insults on the church walls -BLACK REACTION. Don Domenico was undeterred. At Christmastime his speakers picked up every word of his services and some women prayed aloud in church all day long for the pleasure of knowing that their voices were being heard all the way into the valley...
...Associated Hotels chain gave Oberoi his chance. As Associated stock sagged from $2 to 20? on the Calcutta exchange, Oberoi and some partners bought up 54% of the stock, and with it, Associated's eight hotels. Others soon followed as Oberoi improved his hotels. He put modern toilet facilities in every room, central heating and air conditioning into the Grand Hotel in Calcutta and the Imperial in New Delhi, Swiss, German and French managers-bone-bred hoteliers-into most of his hotels. By Indian standards his hotels are excellent, but by U.S. standards they lag, and Oberoi knows...