Word: charwomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will boom." To take advantage of the boom, Kinney has expanded its rent-a-car fleet from 100 vehicles to nearly 6,000 in the last five years. The company also operates a building-maintenance division, now offers a package service to corporations that includes car parking, car leasing, charwomen and guards. Indeed Kinney is on the way to providing more or less cradle-to-grave service: among other enterprises, it owns seven funeral chapels, which last year buried 10% of New York City's dead...
...master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire two more charwomen to assist the one already employed. "'Three charwomen!" cried Tony. "Why, when I was in digs in Liverpool, Cronin, one charwoman did all the work." Cronin responded icily: "I venture to say, sir, that a royal residence is somewhat different from . . . 'digs' in Liverpool...
...shows. Only the network brass-the high-priced officers known as "Dr. Stanton's Book of the Month Club"-are privy to the board's high secrets. Every night the names are scrambled and a canvas curtain is drawn to make doubly sure that spying charwomen will learn nothing they can leak to NBC. Still the dope gets around. Last fall, for instance, the grapevine had it that Garry Moore was coming down. How could his relaxed variety show compete in the same time slot with NBC's highly touted Ford Startime...