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Word: toilets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quarters for Lovers Without an Apartment." Complaining that government ministers get all the good houses, the newspaper Zycie Warszawy recently described 16,000 families quartered in unheated barracks at Jozefow, gave special mention to the case of Jozef Grajka, who lives with his family of five in an outside toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...tourist trade. As the tiger-hunting season approached last week, the Maharajas of Bhopal and Cooch Behar were both busily booking American guests for two-week tiger hunts on their demesnes. The fee of $1,500 single or $2,500 a couple includes martinis every night, a portable flush toilet in every tent, and a 25% refund guaranteed "if a tiger is not brought within shooting distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Crust of the Seventh Loaf | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...MAYHAM Executive Vice President The Toilet Goods Association, Inc. New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...bitter. Strikers waved their signs only when news photographers whooped them on, spent most of their tours on the picket line playing ball, shooting craps, or gazing at television sets plugged into management's power outlets. In Gary, Ind., pickets used an air-conditioned, seven-seat mobile toilet lent them by U.S. Steel. An Inland Steel official called the situation "a comic opera." Said a U.S. Steel executive: "It's just as if they'd all been let out of school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Tranquil Time | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...costs only 40?-but in 1955 the average Russian male got exactly five razor blades. A Russian family eats meat no more than once a week. A worker can buy a refrigerator for $165, but his annual income is about $600. Six families sometimes share a kitchen and a toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Safari | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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