Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of bounce as a jack-in-the-box, the booming U.S. toy industry this week was working around the clock to fill the biggest Christmas stocking in history. With 24 million new customers born since 1940, and plentiful materials for the first time since war's end, the toymakers expect to ring up record 1948 retail sales of $300 to $400 million, at least 20% above...
Shopper's Guide. For the bright 1948 market the trade had turned up scads of new toys and, better yet, was peddling them at low prices. (Toymakers have doubled production in cheap lines.) There are such ingenious gadgets as: 1 "Juggle-head" ($1.98), a magnetic head which can be given different faces by sticking on various types of noses, hair, ears, etc.; 2) a mechanical monkey ($1.98) that harvests coconuts from a palm tree; 3) a toy "electric" shaver...
...engines growled on and Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
...hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...plastics products which also won prizes in the competition, ranged from hardware (garden hose) and building materials (wall tiles, translucent plastic-block walls, vinyl floors, fluorescent light fixtures) to gadgets (harmonicas, toy blocks, perfume atomizers) and artificial hands, complete with hair...