Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young man?" she questioned, putting a fresh nib in her Victorian wooden...
Nine young men stood in the prisoner's dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...
...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...
...Washing Machine. In undeveloped nations, washday means a trek to the nearest stream, where clothes are beaten or scrubbed by hand. To improve on this, the International Cooperation Administration demonstrated a wooden, hand-operated washing machine simple enough to be built by semiskilled workers for $3 on a quantity basis. The washer holds the clothes in a rectangular tub while two plungers, attached to a crossbeam that is operated by hand, force water back and forth through them. ICA plans to send models to its missions around the world...
...started all the current whoopee in hoops are Toymakers Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr, 33-year-old owners of the Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel. Calif. Last March, while attending a New York toy fair, they got a tip from an acquaintance on a wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children...