Years ago, Gladys Taber was both the equipment editor and a columnist for the Ladies Home Journal. After she had children in NYC, she and her friend Jill and her child lived on an old farm in CT, Stillmeadow Farm, and the husbands worked in the city during the week and came up on weekends. Her essays were collected into books, then she authored books after leaving LHJ and later she moved to Cape Cod. Even though it was a very old farmhouse, she made sure that the kitchen was well equipped with modern appliances. Her columns would mention them just in a matter of fact way while telling how she used them and pointing out their labor-saving advantages. She would talk about her electric dishwasher (GE electric sink from photos) and how she loved it but kept her prize milkglass collection out of it because the high heat yellows real milkglass. She would talk about putting on a soup or stew in the deep well of her electric range and she loved her freezer where they stored the bounty from their large garden. She wrote a bittersweet essay about how, after the children were grown, they decided they no longer needed the freezer and unplugged it.
The only place they had for a laundry appliance was on a small back porch (must have been well insulated) so they bought a combo. Now she did not tell what brand, but from the story she told I could tell it was an Easy. It seems she had a visit from someone with a baby and while there they needed to do some laundry. She was only too happy to show off her new combo, but admitted that she did not really know how to operate it; only the housekeeper really used it. So they put in the load of laundry and fiddled around with the controls (bad move) and it started. They continued their visit through a meal while the combo chugged along and then it started drying. They were sitting in the living room when it stopped drying, but did not dash out to unload it until, horror or horrors, it started filling with water again. They jumped, but still the load was wet again so the guests left with clean, but wet laundry. The Easy had a control that you could set to stop at any point in the cycle, as can be seen in the Ephemeral information. In fiddling around with the control, they had mmoved the STOP pointer past OFF and into the wash portion of the timer so it just ticked through the OFF sector of the timer and restarted. As far as I know, it was the only combo timer that would allow that.