Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a mammoth jack-in-the-box, the U.S. toy industry has bounced up high and merrily in its first full postwar year. Before this Christmas has come & gone, retailers expect to sell a record-shattering $250,000,000 worth of toys...
...still there may not be enough toys to go around. Toy production has not increased as fast as the sales volume (due in part to a 20% rise in prices since last year). Toymakers, like everyone else, have been plagued by shortages, and toys will have to be spread over 5,000,000 new users (born at a record rate during...
...except for such items as bicycles, trains and erector sets which will still be short, U.S. moppets will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...
Whistle Round the Bend. Makers of toy trains expect to satisfy only one-half of the tremendous demand. Model railroads have lighter (plastic) and longer trains, remote-control electronic systems that switch and disconnect cars, station masters that announce arrivals, electronically operated cranes, locomotives that whistle, chuff, and trail real smoke...
...hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...