Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightest spot at the Toy Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
There were two main reasons for the playroom gloom: 1) U.S. toymakers are busy making some 500 different war items; 2) war work or not, with no metal and rubber, less wood and paper, they cannot keep up peacetime production. But the Toy Fair showed that U.S. playthings will certainly not be as dreary as the toys British moppets had to take last Christmas, when a toy tank, crudely modeled of wood, with beer-bottle caps, stuck on for gun turrets, sold for a pound...
...long as there are American officials who toy with the idea of beating the Axis by utilizing one Quisling after another, 'right up to the German frontiers' . . . we cannot be sure that there will be no more 'temporary expediency...
...Iraq, a toy shop of the 14th Century was unearthed. It was stocked with 400 tiny terra-cotta figures wearing Moslem soldier costumes...