Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MlCHTOM Ideal Toy Corp. New York City...
Susie is handed a Teddy bear to play with in the operating room. As she fondles it, gas hisses from a concealed tube in the bear's snout. After Susie drops quietly asleep, she is given deeper anesthesia through a mask. Gas-emitting space helmets, toy telephones, dolls and a host of other toys are also used as foils for anesthesia. Most doctors agree that children should be given a truthful description of the steps that will lead to unconsciousness. But the fascination of a plaything is usually enough to erase the child's fear of the operating...
...Angeles, policemen closed in on Richard Sauer in the Citizens National Bank, caught him with a note demanding "all your fives and tens," hauled him off to jail after confiscating his toy badge and his plastic pistol labeled "Dragnet...
This year, while U.S. toymakers clamored for higher tariffs to keep out Japanese imports (current share of U.S. toy sales: about 6%), Marx-provided Tokyo toymakers with the cash and know-how to turn out toys that he contracted to sell in the U.S. as well as in foreign markets such as South Africa. This Christmas Japanese toys make up 5% of the Marx line and include many items, e.g., a $2.98 remote-control model auto that Japanese toymakers can turn out with 10-an-hour labor for less than half as much as it would cost to produce...
...Christmas anticipation began to spread across the U.S. last week, Toy King Marx was busy wrapping up ideas for the presents that Santa Claus will be bringing two and three years from now. For Lou Marx, Christmas doesn't come just once a year, or even on Dec. 25. "When you come out with a real great hit," he says, "that's Christmas...