Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governmental cost was too small to try to make smaller. By standardizing purchases of everything from office furniture to paper clips and toilet tissue. General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, a Chicago textileman and the Government's chief housekeeper, saved $133 million. In the Post Office, switching from heavy canvas to nylon mail sacks will save $800,000 a year in freight...
...About 28 million "proletarians"-miners, factory workers, clerks and mechanics. A typical worker's home: one small bedsitting room (for a man, his wife and two children), with kitchen and toilet facilities shared with the next-door neighbor. The average worker's wage buys him an austerity diet of bread, fish and potatoes (fresh meat is a luxury), and such occasional relaxations as a ticket to a soccer match or a jugful of cheap vodka...
...specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone and smoke his pipe...
...system employs 51,201 people-among them, 37.609) teachers, 772 custodians. 402 truant officers and hundreds of clerks, mechanics, architects, engineers and elevator operators. Many of its subsidiary works, such as legal condemnation of land for new schools and the purchase of supplies (411,500 rolls of toilet paper, $18,965 wet mops. $6,900,000 worth of books and school equipment every year) are big businesses in themselves...
...been giving the Brotherhood military training. Come clean with me." The soft-spoken major denied the accusations, though, as he later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told him, "You're a young fool," but he finally...