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...committee asked no ruralite what his favorite programs were, but each household was asked whether it kept on hand any packaged cereals, coffee, cleanser; canned soup, milk, tomato or fruit juice; wrapped bread, kitchen or toilet soap; toothpaste or powder, face powder, lipstick or rouge. These are prime radio-advertised products. When the report was published the answers to this question were not included. The explanation: "It was believed . . . that pride would tend to inflate the figures of usage, particularly of products like lipstick and rouge, face powder...
...hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35,000 uses for rubber, 4,000,000 people are employed in the industry and its world-wide investment comes to $2,698,000,000. Greatest concentration of this great sum is found in Ohio's 122 rubber factories and last week in Akron, "rubber capital of the world," the industry...
...methods of getting into those affairs," the noted crasher went on, "I have many. The most embarrassing, of course, is when I have to resort to a butler's uniform and go in through the kitchen...
Instead, every day from the Bijur kitchen ten to 15 Ibs. of meat, seven to ten Ibs. of butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined...
...hour week, general working conditions and other basic phases of the present agreement remained unchanged. The wage of pantry men, helpers and glass and silver women was also set at $18, making this the minimum wage for kitchen and Dining Hall workers. The contract called for a $3 raise for bus boys, giving them $30 a week. Other increase asked were in rough proportion to this...