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Burlesquing all giveaway shows-including his own-Truth or Consequences' pap-happy master of ceremonies Ralph Edwards last week offered a radio prize to end radio prizes. Winner of his current voice-identifying contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid...
...electric back-washer, consisting of a framework which straddles the bathtub, with an endless scrubbing towel rotating over two rollers, one immersed in the water...
...minute he finished his last searchlight, he walked a few hundred yards to the final washer assembly and was back at peacetime work. The whole 160,000-man G.E. organization from president to foremen to typists had pointed for this moment. Like other key men, Emil had to be reconverted before most of the 32 other U.S. appliance manufacturers got going, and before the customers beat down the doors...
Bright Future. At first, Emil will help make but one medium-priced washer, closely resembling the 1942's (G.E. made six prewar models, three of them at or near the loss level to meet low-priced competitors). Most will go straight to G.E.'s 60 domestic distributors, who will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African...
...heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...