YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
Sheridan, Mary
YOUR MONEY'S WORTH By MARY SHERIDAN IT'S uncomfortable these days to hold a copy of Better Homes and Gardens or House Beautiful on your lap. Fat with advertising, they reflect the trend of the...
...Sidney A. Portis of the University of Illinois Medical School pointed out, are much more frequent an hour before lunch, when an inadequate breakfast results in fatigue...
...One of the standbys of the women's magazines is the recurrent little piece, illustrated by a willowy creature who looks quite unfamiliar with a hard day's work, about getting housework done in no time at all while you combine it with posture exercises...
...Two other nutritionists spoke up last month on the relationship between nourishing meals and work efficiency...
...It includes precautions and treatment for mild cases...
...A 1.64:83) from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C...
...Dry milk powders are inexpensive, easy to store, and convenient to have on hand...
...What better use than that the bakers improve the quality of their product by putting it into their bread...
...FS 2.50:65 and a nickel from the Superintendent of Documents...
...Materials and tools required for the six stages of construction—foundation, floor slab, walls, roof, windows and doors, and interior—are listed...
...McCay would like to see a commercial bread that is more than 6% milk solids...
...Under the new housing law...
...This costs $1, postpaid, from the Sto-A-Way Co., Aurora, 111...
...In a survey of 626 housebuilders, the April Architectural Forum reports that the typical builder plans to build 50% more houses this year than last...
...29 cents each or $3 a dozen...
...the case involves mislabeling and adulteration of Biolac, an infant food, in interstate shipments in 1949 . . . There are new plastic plant protectors ("Plastex Hothouse") on the market, oval or round in shape, for protecting or speeding up flowers or vegetables...
...Build It Yourself Out at the State College of Washington in Pullman, two student couples with no previous experience built small, low cost houses designed by the college of home economics and the department of architectural engineering...
...In two pans, light batter goes in the outer and center circles, dark batter in the middle section...
...Built for $2,500-$3,000 plus lot, each house contains 440 square feet and has walls of pumice blocks...
...Catalog No...
...down payment requirements are lower— making it easier, grumbled the Wall Street Journal, to finance a home than a car—and direct lending of $150 million for housing is authorized by the Veterans Administration...
...New plastic clothes pins called Jiffy-Grip are small spiral curls which grip the line with a slight finger pressure...
...the latter are fixed in place with three metal strips that clamp over the rim...
...To shoppers who do not buy meat by grade—and a lot of buyers-in-a-hurry rely on appearance or the butcher's judgment—a change in labels wouldn't matter, but to those who depend on Federal grading as a guide to quality, the proposed change offers no improvement in accuracy—quite the reverse...
...A less glamorous but more practical approach is found in Posture in Housework, a booklet with 22 charts illustrating the proper posture for many household tasks and with advice on how to reduce fatigue...
...To keep a hot iron away from small fry, the Sto-A-Way ironing rest can be attached to a door or wall space, where the iron can cool off out of reach...
...McCay, is high in minerals and vitamins and low in calories...
...The plans are expandable...
...The powders can be used wherever fluid milk is called for...
...Dynel, the fabric that looks and feels like wool and is being used for blankets and socks, needs to be washed and dried at a very low temperature...
...White nylon discolors from drying in sunlight or near heat and from ironing with too hot an iron...
...Housing starts in the first three months of 1950 were 60% higher than a year ago...
...Reports of 1950's first quarter earnings indicate another high profit year for industry, starred by General Electrics profits of $36.8 million (highest ever...
...Accidents, Dr...
...The best adult diet, according to Dr...
...The story turned up on a number of front pages, and many papers carried detailed stories inside...
...Food and Old Age The nutritionists' word that better eating habits will delay old age may do more through appeal to vanity than appeals to reason have accomplished in persuading us to consume more of the natural, protective foods like milk and fresh fruit and vegetables...
...Clive M. McCay, of Cornell University's school of nutrition, points out that older people form a larger proportion of our population than ever before...
...Industrial production, reported the Federal Reserve Board, was higher in March than at any point in the last 13 months...
...Blueing, but not bleaching, will help combat that gray look...
...only about 20% of all beef is Government-graded according to prime, choice, good, commercial, utility, and cutter and canner quality...
...Bolting breakfast, he added, is no real help in losing weight...
...By trial and error, many a housewife has discovered that nylon wrinkles less if hung up to dry without wringing...
...Handling the Miracle Fabrics The miracle fabrics—nylon, orlon, dynel—stand up and look their best if they are washed and ironed at low temperatures, advises Antoinette Falcone, a fabrics expert...
...from the consumer's corner, the change in labels looks like a simple case of upgrading...
...Transparent and made of unbreakable plystyrene...
...W. W. Tuttle of the University of Iowa estimated that up to 40% loss in efficiency can be expected from the person who skips breakfast...
...Orion curtains, according to Miss Falcone, should be ironed when quite wet at a temperature below 300 degrees...
...The tobacco industry spent nearly $20 million for newspaper advertising last year . . . The May issue of Consumers Union Reports surveys the 1950 cars (no one "best buy" for everybody, but Plymouth gets the gold star in the low price group) and carries a dissenting opinion on cars-in-general by Milton Mayer . . . The Borden Co., whose 1949 profits of $21,890,-479 were the highest in its history, is charged with violation of the Pure Food and Drug Act...
...It is non-inflammable and claims to last three months...
...We are spending the money for houses, washing machines, television sets, refrigerators, cars, vacuum cleaners, and all the products that go with houses and housekeeping...
...Retail sales of automobiles have broken all records...
...Rely on natural foods...
...The Government now has in storage more than 140 million pounds of non-fat milk solids (dry skim milk) that it does not know what to do with...
...This sounds like a wet and slightly messy procedure, and it is —but the results are worth it...
...Those Labels on Beef Federal grading of meat is non-compulsory...
...This costs 20 cents (ask for Catalog No...
...with the third layer, the process is reversed...
...The new labels sound better than the old, and shoppers are likely to think they are getting a grade higher than they used to, at no increase in price...
...They are cheaper than synthetic vitamins and probably contain unknown factors of great benefit...
...The meat industry has proposed a new grading system, with the labels of prime (to include the two grades of beef now described as "prime" or "choice"), choice (replacing the present label of "good"), good (replacing the present "commercial" label), and commercial (carcasses of older animals...
...Some manufacturers of appliances are allocating their production-—so great has been the demand...
...used car prices have gone upward again after a long decline...
...Yet we are spending paychecks as fast as they come in, at a rate of nearly $185 million a year now—way ahead of last year's level...
...New Products A new insecticide, Miri-Kill, made with a 5% solution of chlordane, can be mixed in the water for washing walls, woodwork, floors, sinks, and any other surfaces to kill ants, moths, roaches, and termites...
...just lift the garments or curtains from the rinse water to the line...
...Movie, hotel, and night club business is down...
...Good nutrition, he emphasizes, can help prevent the slowing-up characteristic of advancing age and can control many of the diseases assumed to be inevitable with later years...
...49 cents a half-pint and 89 cents a pint...
...Single copies of How to Use Whole and Nonfat Dry Milk are available free from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C...
...Notes There wasn't anything especially new about the Federal Trade Commission's recent slap at the advertising claims of Camels and Old Golds, but the news coverage dailies gave the story was new...
...With summer approaching, it might be useful to have a copy of a little four-page booklet, Poison Ivy, around...
...Production of orlon (which possesses some of nylon's qualities but is porous) will be limited for some time, and it is best known so far in curtains...
...Unemployment figures are down...
...Permanent wrinkles may set in the fabric from wringing too hard or even from being crumpled in a laundry bag...
...One nationwide nutritional weakness, calcium deficiency, can be most easily overcome by more consumption of milk—fluid, dried, or canned...
...a television set brings in more guests and leads to new or more furniture...
...The pins, which won't snag or rust delicate fabrics, come in packages of 24 for 49 cents...
...Our buying habits are changing...
...Most of 1950's houses will be a little bigger than 1949's, and 30% of them will be in the $8,000-$10,000 price range...
...You can hold a number of these red rings on your lingers while you hang clothes...
...One thing leads to another: a new house makes worn furniture seem too shabby...
...The set consists of three layer pans and a removable center of two rings...
...Fat with advertising, they reflect the trend of the times: the housing boom, the resultant demand for furniture and appliances, and the continuing clamor for cars...
...The boom shows no sign of declining, and the Department of Commerce predicts it will last for the next three years...
...Nylon, if ironed at all, needs only a swish from a mildly warm iron...
...Thus, business is improving and profits rising to the point where, as the National City Bank reports, "the situation is as strong as anyone dared hope"—all this mind you, despite the continuing laments of business spokesmen that they are being paralyzed by Government interference and taxes...
...It won't leave a stain and can be used on anything not harmed by water...
...These self-built, experimental houses are described in Our Answer to Housing—Build It Yourself (25 cents from either department...
...Hand washing and line drying give the best results: dynel usually darkens in an automatic dryer...
...Part of the gadget can be detached for use as a fireproof rest on an ironing board...
...so is luxury buying...
...An ingenious marble cake set is available for 59 cents at Woolworth stores...
...Meat industry advocates of this change, to be tested by the Department of Agriculture in a 60-day trial, say the re-named labels would be more descriptive of the grades consumers want and that the new labeling would encourage more packers to grade their meat...
...Nylon apparently thrives from a minimum of handling...
...Perhaps these conclusions are reached on the basis of facts not available to those outside the trade...
...It's a good idea to avoid washing other fabrics with nylon, for nylon tends to pick up loose soil from its neighbors...
Vol. 14 • June 1950 • No. 6
