Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Businessman Santa Claus had both good & bad news in his reports to small-fry customers last week. Now at the peak of its pre-Christmas hustle, the toy industry is shipping a greater variety of playthings than it has turned out since 1941. On retail toy shelves there is many an eye-catching new number, and rubber and metal toys not seen in any quantity in five years. The bad news is that prices are higher (about 10%) and the supply of some items, such as electric trains and dolls, is far short of demand. (One big store estimated that...
...toy industry was late getting into big production because retailers delayed orders last spring, waiting for lower prices which never came. When the orders finally began pouring in, toy manufacturers, like everyone else, were slowed up by shortages of materials. As a result, the industry has scant hope of bettering its last year's gross of $250 million...
Germany has sent over some sleek hand-sized cars, some with gear shifts and brakes, and others with remote-control steering. But they are scarce; foreign toy imports so far this year have been less than $1,000,000. Trickiest U.S. model: an aluminum racer that runs more than 15 m.p.h. on compressed...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...
...Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires...