Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pogo, which now pays Kelly about $25,000 a year, has so far turned away from the blandishments of toy manufacturers, book publishers, etc. Pogo and his pals have no greater ambition than Horrors Greeley, the freckled cow, who meanders westward as she sings: "Oh, give me a home 'tween Buffalo an' Rome, where the beer in the cantaloupe...
...certain of the year's festive seasons, you find yourself wishing you were a kid again, forget it. You're probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary...
...Toy transportation facilities this year are as modern as the new store front on Jordan Marsh. That store undoubtedly has the best train exhibit in town, although it doesn't touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...
...main themes of the toys this year are science and war. Keeping up with the year's changes in the nuclear laboratories, the new Atomic Energy Labs, selling at $49.50, are now equipped with deionizers, Dri-electric power packs, and Geiger Counters. Thousands of smiling pink-checked celebrants on the 25th are being exhorted to test the radioactivity of ore samples, measure half-lives, view the alpha particle effect on fluorescent screens, and prospect for radio-active deposits on the way to school. Parents are assured that success in this venture may lead to a $10,000 reward, that very...
...statistical weighting because they are "now a part of national life." More weight will be allowed for mechanical refrigeration, less for ice. The proportion for rent will be increased because of the fading of rent control. Among new items that may be added next year: beer and a toy doll...