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Show I HOME IMPROVEMENT. Electrical industrialists say that in some early year American housewives will spend 5 billion dollars for electric appliances. Last year, in the heart of depression, 739,456,000 electrical devices de-vices were sold in the United States. These include, naturally, a great many small appliances and devices, but they indicate a trend which apparently ap-parently is just gaining full momentum. momen-tum. The number of devices sold in 1933, incidentally, is a new record. Washing machies sold totaled more than a million, an increase over 1932 of almost 50 per cent and over 1931 of 18 per cent. These are significant figures for two reasons. They show7, first of all, the tremendous domestic demand for labor-savers and they show likewise, and perhaps more importantly, that the trend toward improving the home and making it more comforable and easier to live in has been unchecked. |