Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pessimistic about the outlook for "spot" reconversion programs that last autumn seemed to promise at least a trickle of durable goods (e.g., washing machines, electric irons, vacuum cleaners, pianos) this year...
...Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co.: a cordless electric flatiron, heated while standing on a base. The base, instead of the iron, is plugged into an electric outlet...
...buyers bought more vacuum cleaners, radios, etc. than Gimbel warehouses could hold. Bernard simply rented more warehouse space, kept his buyers hunting for more goods. One lucky find just before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...
Further reconversion of U.S. industry was stopped dead in its tracks last week. WPB banned any increase in civilian-goods production in the first quarter of 1945. The manufacture of such items as vacuum cleaners, electric irons, etc., scheduled to increase under the "spot authorization" reconversion plan, has been frozen at present levels. This means that permits already granted in critical areas for more civilian goods in the next three months will now be rescinded. Furthermore, manufacturers whose products can be used by both the armed services and civilians will have trouble in getting permission to make goods...
...Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed it in a dirt path with a twig...