Word: households
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of Birds Eye frozen foods, still the biggest-selling brand. Last year it put its 250 products (including different flavors and varieties) into 4.5 billion packages that the housewife took home for $1.1 billion. On pantry shelves and in refrigerators from Maine to Florida, its products are household words -Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee. Post cereals, Swans Down cake mix, Sanka, Minute Rice, Gaines dog food...
Handkerchiefs Ready. A typical sob-coaxer is entitled Doctor Marigold. No doctor. Marigold is actually an itinerant peddler hawking his household wares from the footboard of his cart. His termagant wife cruelly beats their little daughter. During one of his spiels to the assembled yokelry, the wan and feverish tot dies in his arms. Turning on his wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready...
France scaled down (from 30% to 27%) import duties on U.S. autos, electric razors, farm machinery. France is giving the U.S. the same reductions it gives its Common Market neighbors. Import quotas on about 200 items ranging from textiles to household appliances were also scrapped, and Pinay promised to junk all remaining import quotas within two years. Foreign-trade experts doubt that this will mean any sizable overall boost in U.S. sales in competition with heavily protected French industry...
Japan announced that within 16 months it will cancel restrictions on a wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends...