Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early!" said a Macy's ad in Manhattan last week. For $5.98 Macy's offered a space academy, complete with men from Mars and Jupiter, atomic launchers, flying saucers and disintegrators. From the look of things, Macy's was right. Just 45 shopping days before Christmas, toy counters all over the nation were piled high with mountains of space suits, rocket ships and other gravity-defying devices. Space was the big seller...
...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
Kiddies' Rocket. In Hamburg, Germany, Exporter Günther Lukas was planning to supply the U.S. Christmas market with an up-to-date but frightening toy: a footlong, six-ounce rocket, similar to the German wartime V2, that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
Definition. In Sunderland, England, Thomas Boyle, 45, walked into a department store and stole a toy six-shooter for one of his children, told police who arrested him: "The counter service was too slow, and that's criminal...