Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once upon a time a certain Herr Drosselmeier, a hunchbacked, cranky old toy-maker, fashioned a very special toy--a nutcracker--and gave it to little Clara Siberhaus at her parents' Christmas party. While the grown-ups dance a minuet, Clara's pesky brother Fritz snatches the nutcracker out of his sister's arms and dashes it to the floor. She gathers the damaged toy in her arms and to attempts to nurse it back to health...
...Chicago last week for its final run, the crack New York Central passenger express was delayed by a derailment up the track, wound up at its destination nine hours late. That is the way things have been going for trains recently and not just for real ones either. Toy electric trains, the very symbol of Christmas for generations of middle-class American boys, have gradually been losing customers...
Proof again that toys are designed by adults for one another as often as for children. One can easily understand why in this elegant, color-illustrated survey of a key period in the toy industry's history, 1860-1914, when the Industrial Revolution brought new techniques to toymaking. Machines could now roll metal into thin sheets, punch out forms, and fold them into the shape of toys that could be sold in greater numbers and at cheaper prices; inner works, such as clockwork miniatures, gave charm and humor to acrobat cyclists, gardeners with watering cans, mothers with prams, even...
...like to think of ourselves as a toy train club," said James L. Warshler '64, public relations man for the toy train club. He explained that M.I.T. is the only university in the country with a club simuluating automatic train operation...
...M.I.T. toy trains are not for children. Students build scale models of trains and construct the layout's elaborate control system. Some are working on thesis projects in Tuckertown; others are involved in government research for the Department of Transportation...