Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hundreds of portly, earnest, grey-haired gentlemen were playing with toys in Manhattan last week. They fondled dolls, pushed kiddie-cars, ran trains, played blocks eight hours a day. It was the annual U. S. Toy Fair, to which go toy buyers from nearly every big store in the U.S. to place their orders for next Christmas...
...more U.S. toymakers whose wares were spread over several floors of the Toy Center (No. 200 Fifth Ave.) and spilled into the Hotel McAlpin, this year's fair was a milestone. It marked the 20th anniversary of the ''birth'' of the industry in 1914 when the flow of German products was abruptly cut off. Since then the domestic industry has grown 300%, now has a retail market of $200,000,000 annually...
...German toys were largely flimsy knick-knacks but the practical U.S. manufacturers promptly created a toy world modeled on the current industrial scene. Last week they had looms that wove, vacuum cleaners that swept, concrete mixers that mixed, washing machines that washed, dump trucks that dumped, foundries that spouted molten lead, Pullman cars with berths that made up. Buyers had a choice of 50,000 items ranging from doll houses with radios and period furniture to puzzles and knee-action penguins...
Because most Britons feel certain that the present improvement in British trade is bound to continue they estimate that Neville Chamberlain will have a surplus of approximately ?50,000,000 to toy with before the next budget must be presented April 17. Last week one result seemed certain-some relief for the British taxpayer who last year paid a basic rate of 25% on his income...
...every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...