...Robert S. Smith Refrigeration in America: A History of a New Technology and Its Impact . By Anderson Oscar Edward Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press for the University of Cincinnati , 1953 . Pp. xiii , 344 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book...

... transformation of the ice industry. Cheaper ice and better ice-cooled refrigerators the correct principle of the refrigerator was not employed until i860 contributed greatly to the improvement of the American diet. It is equally true, as Anderson points out, that increased use of fresh fruits, vegetables...

... of reality. Meanwhile, those who live with A Rose for Emily may still feel a clean and wholesome charm in this colorful and affectionate biography. harry r. stevens Refrigeration in America: A History of a New Technology and Its Impact. By Oscar Edward Anderson, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press...

... document to the extensive body of literary alienation from America. Some day, [a sensitive Italian points out to Kinsolving] the Russians will have the refrigerators and the bathrooms that you Americans have. But though it is repressed at the moment, the Russians have a fund of spirituality which you...

.... Ayres has stated that their revival is the greatest problem. But he has been forced to admit that a change in taste now compels the acknowledgment that some new industries are making advances. He says: By far the most impressive record has been made by electric refrigerators. In 1920 the cost...

... are numerous, but the bulk of the story deals with the problems, past and present, of cultivating, harvesting, and shipping bananas; the operation of refrigerated banana ships (the Great White Fleet weather stations, and communication systems; and the organi­ zation of markets in the United States. Scattered...

... boxes in the smokehouse. When we killed hogs we always had a bountiful supply of miscellaneous meats. It was necessary to consume heart, liver, ribs, back-bone, trimmings, and other parts of the hog as early as possible since it was difficult to salt them down and to keep them without refrigeration over...

... market in Paris, provides another example of how urban spatial change and the evolution of gastronomy are related. Les Halles was a phenomenal complex of sub­ terranean refrigerated chambers and street-level markets. It embraced not 7. Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs (London, 1975) and The Great Pub Boom...

... in our culture. The man who designs a rocket, a war­ head, or a refrigerator is a technologist, not a scientist, and his cultural function is definitely non-scientific. That does not neces­ sarily mean that his role is less important than that of a scientist although to be frank with you, I believe...

... that it contains, not only precious old paintings, statues, and tapestries, medieval swords and baroque guns, but also the latest oil-heating sys­ tem and the most luxurious refrigerators. These same old-fashioned people object to the Prince wearing shorts in public or to the Prin­ cess s bicycling through...

..., if dry ice packing on regular boxcars replaced the use of expensive refrigerator cars to ship the perishable product. But that in­ volved the construction of dry ice plants near the fruit orchards, something not feasible unless the South developed its extensive limestone deposits from which dry ice...

... the Middle West, the Far West, and Florida. Last year (1948), for example, users of TVA power expended $ 50,000,000 in the purchase of electric ranges, water heaters, washing machines, and refrigerators. In the same fiscal year the TVA spent over $530,000,000 for such items as generators, raw materials...

... industry because we have become afraid that we may be taken for peasants. We have taken to imports in order to appear modern. We are no longer satisfied if we don t have a refrigerator, a shiny car. We are restless if for once we cannot go to the cinema in order to divert ourselves. We feel lonely...

... of freckles across the bridge of her nose. I get somehow, you know, aroused or some shit, seeing those freckles, seeing her now-retro hot- pants. I walk into the bathroom, don’t jerk off, just think of refrigerators, refrigerators...

... rela­ tivized in that process. Niagara Falls, Madonna, jeans, refrigerators, and beds came to be regarded in the same light as Fujiyama, geisha, kimono, shoji, and tatami. An American model did not displace a tra­ ditional one. Instead, they coexisted, and people were free to choose one or the other...

... that nations and civilizations cannot live by radios, electric refrigerators, and public hygiene alone. Even the completely disinterested contemplation of penultimate atomic essence will not see us through. And those intellectuals of science who have been keenly aware of our easy susceptibility to laboratory...

... of mortgage and installment contract. There is no car, no electric refrigerator, but there is economic security. . . . Handicraft peoples produce only for a specific need; all their output is essentially custom made. They fabricate the articles which enable them to cope with their environment, and little...

... the signs of this during and following the last war signs manifested principally in commodities that we for­ merly took for granted. The list, even in America, was long and impressive: oil, rubber, paper, steel, cotton, copper, meat, butter, poultry products, radios, refrigerators, motor cars, railway...

... vigor. With equal never-say-die spirit, Amana Refrigeration, Inc., has recently gained ownership of the trademark Deepfreeze and is pressing its claim with the catch phrase there s a capital D in Deepfreeze . . . just as there is a capital A in Amana. The tug of war is unending. Having already lost...

... I, however, warns against exaggerated hopes The Aftermath of War Finance 255 for deferred demand, though any analogy between the two wars should not be taken too seriously. Nevertheless, the popular notion that consumers demand can, as it were, be put into a refrigerator for the duration...