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Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...
...nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish...
Before that - and since, for that matter -U.S. rural folk liked to say that they "ain't had so much fun since the hogs et Little Willie." or "ain't laughed so much since Grandma got caught in the wash wringer." With each new generation, psychiatrists attempt to explain the meaning of such jokes in relation to their era. Cer tain only is the fact that Little Willie...
...Utah) and confessed that she had done it all because "we desperately needed money to buy clothes and shoes for our two small children [aged 3 and 2]. My husband makes only $300 a month, and we owe so many bills." Then that story, too, got caught in the wringer...
...decline in the sale of major appliances compared with 1956, the institute disclosed that in the first four months of the year some drops were even sharper. Sales of free-standing electric and gas ranges were down 21% and 10% respectively. Combination washers and dryers were down 24%. wringer washers 30%, electric dryers 26%, gas dryers 10%. But because of shifts in consumer likes, some newer lines showed strength. Sales of electric built-in ranges were up 27%, gas built-in ranges...