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...three-quarters of all French blue-collar workers voluntarily (so to speak) turn over their weekly pay envelopes to maman, who passes back a few francs for Gauloises and wine. Economically, French housewives are growing increasingly independent. With the growth in popularity of household time-savers like the automatic washer and le sandwich, some 30% of all married women find the time and energy to hold jobs outside the home, roughly the same proportion...
Amid these portents, the U.S. laboring man in his great variety-from the sandhog in the bowels of a city to the window washer high above, from the production line worker to the sedentary clerk-has taken a historic step. Now that he has more money than ever, he has turned to the next need: security. In current contract negotiations throughout the U.S., the stress is on job security, early retirement and increased pensions. A contract signed last week between Armour and two meatpacking unions guarantees that workers displaced by machines will continue to earn their previous wages-even...
...stream of water and detergent through a high-pressure hose that he uses to spray the car. Another dime gets him a packet of lintless paper towels with which to dry the car, and yet another dime turns on a vacuum cleaner for the interior. Though quick and experienced washers can get away with one quarter, most find that it takes two or three to complete the job properly, also find that they need a bit of agility to keep their clothes dry. But whatever the system, it is cheaper than the average $1.50 to $2 cost of the tunnel...
...prosperous that they want to spend $2 to clean up the car. The do-it-yourself outfits are so far concentrated in the Southwest, often appear in small towns, where their cost (average: $20,000) makes them far more practical than the high-volume tunnel washers (average cost: $200,000). New and better coin-ops are bound to come: next year a Florida company will begin producing a washer that directs a stream of pulsating water at a car. By setting up vibrations in the metal, it loosens the dirt and ensures that it all comes out in the wash...
...tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 5,000,000) offering home washing-machine demonstrations. The ad drew 7,000 replies from prospering Britons-and Bloom soon had a firm set up to sell them. His unorthodox selling and barebone prices quickly cornered 10% of the washer market. Bloom then bought out lifeless Rolls, an old razor maker, to use as his corporate vehicle, expanded into dishwashers, refrigerators, trading stamps, rental TV, and even cheap holiday tours for Britons on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast...