Ellen Elias has not yet seen the latest General Electric refrigerator, featuring a filter that purifies the chipped ice and chilled drinking water that at the touch of a button flows from a spigot on the door.
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Dan Reicher, the assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, said, " The launch of a fuel-cell-powered house is up there with the introduction of the electric refrigerator, the room air-conditioner and the fluorescent light ."
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By 1970, 98 % of all employee households owned a washing machine, 95 % a gas or electric refrigerator, 80 % a vacuum cleaner, 77 % a camera, and 67 % to 70 % a television set.
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In a country where a mid-ranking civil servant's salary is less than $ 200 a month, a 27-cubic-foot General Electric refrigerator costs more than $ 5, 000, a slightly used General Electric washing machine about $ 1, 200.
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Katie marries the Professor, being sufficiently impressed by his crooning ability ( while replacing her radio with an electric refrigerator ), while the iceman is finally won over by the spinster's cooking and baking and presumably marries her.
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Kitchens were an easy and popular target for futurists, who enjoyed wowing women with tantalizing gadgets to make the " housewife's " life that much easier, like solar ovens, thermo-electric refrigerators, talking toasters, cordless waffle irons, and disposable dishes.
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A lot of the used furniture stores back at the turn of the century here in Winnipeg did the exact thing : I own an 1885 icebox that has a label on it from well into the electric refrigerator era.
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At that time, CIPS also sold its three remaining ice plants, because the new inexpensive electric refrigerators put an end to the " ice box " and the CIPS ice trucks which had been commonplace throughout central and southern Illinois.
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They now take the proceeds of drug sales in the United States, buy whiskey ( or General Electric refrigerators, Sony televisions, Microsoft software and in one case last year a Picasso ) and ship them back home, where they are sold quickly at below-market prices.
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In England, Boxing Day is the day on which the various tradesmen that serve your home come around to collect their Christmas gift, such as the mailman, the garbage collector, the grocery delivery boy, the milkman, and in the days before electric refrigerators, the ice man.
