Word: wringer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testimony reads like a surrealistic nightmare: cribs that strangle, glass doors that shatter and become makeshift guillotines, high-handlebar bicycles that break cheekbones, hot-water vaporizers that scald, power mowers that clip off fingers and toes, wringer washing machines that crush the young and unwary. But the gruesome catalogue is no dream; it is compiled from accounts of common product hazards listed in a study released last week by the National Commission on Product Safety. The study notes that consumer products are involved in most household accidents -and those accidents kill 30,000 people annually, permanently disable...
...conglomerate with a difference that he would have appreciated. Since 1965, its sales have doubled, to $1.1 billion last year, and net profits have nearly tripled, to $63 million, a healthy 18% on invested capital. In the first quarter of 1970, when many other conglomerates were going through the wringer, USI raised its sales by 12% and its earnings by 16% over the same period...