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Before 1921, sleepy Americans burned a lot of toast. Back then, all the toasters sold in this country were manual: You had to pop up the slices yourself. If you dillydallied, your toast was, well, toast.
For our March 1952 report we tested automatic and manual toasters. The Toast-O-Later Model J, at left, moved bread slice by slice on ...