Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Spots. In many another industry the news was better-notably in the electrical industry. General Electric was typical. Despite lack of copper wire, which may soon clip production, G.E.'s electric fan output was close to schedule. Refrigerators were up to 93%; vacuum cleaners 57%, irons 91%. But toasters, broilers and roasters were still way down. Radio manufacturers were turning out a million radios monthly, almost the 1941 production level. (The public was already balking at buying unknown brands.) Shoe manufacturers will probably reach an alltime U.S. high this year of 550 million pairs; tires were now plentiful...
...cacophony of coal, steel and railroad shutdowns, the shrill cry of alarm from users of copper has gone unheard. Yet by last week the four-month strike of copper mine, smelter, and refinery workers threatened to shut down makers of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, telephones, vacuum cleaners, etc. Copper output was down to one-third of normal, while demand was at a peacetime peak...
...quite a trick to write of life & death, as Camus does, in terms of an almost total social and moral vacuum. He may get philosophical satisfaction from it. Most readers will call it philosophic doodling...
Robert Conway has been nominated as the "Biggest Damn Fool of the Year" [TIME, April 22]. . . . The blame is not on Conway. He is but a tool, an agent of the New York Daily News and its readers. The News and its allied organs do not exist in a vacuum, printing blasts of prejudice from an editorial ivory tower contrary to the opinions of the rest of mankind. They exist because their millions of readers want to believe perversions of the truth...
...Chicago's S. Buchsbaum & Co. was turning out a $12.50 vacuum feed ball pen, "The Style King Magic Flow," hoped to sell 150,000 this year...