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...coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes washer and drier, lavatory, bath, toilet. A door and big windows are at the open end of the U and, according to Grebe, there is space for a workshop and storage inside. A set of three concentric chimneys over the stove, using hot escaping gases to warm incoming air, provides heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home Is Where the Gadget Is | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Harry J. Tuthill tried about everything. He worked in a chair factory and as chief assistant can-washer in a dairy; peddled picture frames, baking powder and soap on the road; took a mail-order course in steam engineering; courted the belle of Springfield, Ill. ("Beautiful creature-she later married a brakeman.") He joined a street carnival as barker and sold the Perfesser's cure with a medicine show. In 1919 he became a comic-strip artist, began drawing The Bungles. By last week he was good & tired of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bungles Bopped | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic. Yet kitchen help in my college almost struck last winter over the installation of a plate-washer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folklorist Abroad | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, a jury in San Francisco's Superior Court awarded Washer $125,000 as a result of the bank's statement, approximately $2,000 a word. The bank promptly appealed. Last week Washer planned to ask the NLRB once more to give him his old bank job back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: $2,000 a Word | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...While jobless, Washer paid $25 for a painting in a secondhand bookstore in Los Angeles. Later, art experts verified it as an old master by Italy's Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, appraised it at $100,000. Washer still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: $2,000 a Word | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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