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In 1950s sitcoms, smartly dressed women did household chores while hijinks and hilarity swirled around them. Less amusing was the fact that the average American woman spent 90 minutes a day doing dishes in 1952. In our tests that year, we noted that "even the best machines failed to cleanse an occasional dish thoroughly."
Unlike many of the ones we recently tested (see report on page 35), the dishwashers of 1952 were noisy. And it took lots of ...