Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television's real growth came after World War II, and by its tenth birthday last week, commercial TV was very commercial indeed; a TV set was no longer a temperamental toy, but the everyday benzedrine or phenobarbital of the masses. Now there are 109 stations in 66 cities; the hour of TV time that cost $120 on July 1, 1941 cost $3,250 last week. There are four Eastern networks, each with an outpost on the West Coast; the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is building the last section of a coaxial cable and radio relay system which will link...
Comet was started as a die-casting shop in 1919 by the Slonim brothers' immigrant father. When the two sons came into the business during the mid-'30s, they parlayed their hobby of toy soldiers into a profitable sideline. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Comet got its first Government order, made 50,000 model warships for the Navy. In 1943, its peak year, it turned out more than $2,000,000 in models for the Government, everything from a ½-in. U.S. infantryman in full battle dress (price: $1.85 a dozen) to a complicated submarine with a finished...
...Airport last week, the whole family was placed under "technical arrest." While their parents argued with representatives of the Home Office, Bubba and Kathy raced in wild unconcern up & down the corridors of the immigration building. When the officials told them to go home forthwith, Bubba menacingly waved a toy six-shooter under their official noses. Next day the officials relented slightly, said it was all right for the Tongays to stay in England for one month. But any swimming the kids did, they warned, must be strictly for fun-not cash...
...Little girls, reported the Literary Gazette, were complaining bitterly about the standardization of dolls in Soviet toy stores. 'All the dolls, they said, had exactly the same faces, hairdos and dresses. ¶ A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside...
...story tells of a young man in a huge toy factory who invents a laughing doll called a flahooley. Then, by rubbing a magic lamp, he conjures up a genie who can turn out flahooleys at will. The genie soon gluts the market and becomes the object of an inflamed and rabid genie hunt, with everybody vainly trying to send him back to his native lamp...