Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to Europeanize the world with? The European standards of living, of course. Curious that one does not say the standards of morals. . . . When one speaks of raising the standards of living, one means clearly and simply that laundry will be more pleasant, and dishwashing and vacuum-cleaning will be easier on the housewife, plus perhaps a quart of milk a day for the Hottentot. One means less hand labor. One means having a car and seeing a movie once a week...
...though as Chaffee personally supervises all the courses given in the Radar school by paying visits to classes, checking on instruction and giving a series of lectures from time to time. It was at the conclusion of one of the series of Chaffee's highly technical lectures on vacuum tubes to the Radar school last winter that he was jokingly presented with a be-ribboned shovel by his bewildered students. For several days he proudly displayed the gift until its significance suddenly struck him and today that shovel has disappeared from among Professor Chaffee's trophies...
...civilian articles, the resumption of manufacture of others. The bulk of additional goods will be in "irritation items," large in U.S. usage, small in material requirements: needles, razor blades, nails, bobby pins, repair parts for household appliances and cars. OCR knows better than to ask manufacture of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (200,000 are still frozen...
...thought of the project was impossible to learn. Hollywood rumors, sifted down, indicated that Disney had received some politely unofficial suggestions that the book really wasn't good picture material. Apparently no stronger pressure was applied. Disney, at any rate, did not produce the picture in a military vacuum; his studio's main job now is turning out war training films, and he has ample contact with the armed forces...
...Sears, Roebuck's new fall & winter catalogue 250 items were dropped, many ads for accordions, antifreeze, alarm clocks, vacuum bottles, wheelbarrows, etc. were defaced with the legend: "Sorry, not available." Sears was even fresh out of sheets and pillow cases...