Word: wiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of them went on to graduate school at Harvard, Oxford, Duke, Columbia, etc., where 17% earned degrees. Although a little better than one-half of them went straight from college into journalism, the rest took first-jobs as teachers, clerks, pressagents, warehousemen, gas meter readers. One was "a wiper on a coastal steamer...
Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...
...windshield wiper for eyeglasses (originally introduced by Comic Ed Wynn, in The Perfect Fool...
Double Billing. In Port Washington, L.I., Margaret Denton apologized to her husband Michael after crows flew off with her clothespins. Michael had just come in with a story about losing his windshield-wiper to two crows who pried it loose and flew away with...
...farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising a drop of sweat...