Greatest thing since sliced bread (December 1952)

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   From the NEW YORK TIMES, 7 December 1952, pg. SM28:

   And it took an American to put the latest form of air travel in its place when he was asked, on arriving in a Comet jet line from Rome, how he liked the new machine.  "Why," he said, "it's the greatest thing since sliced bread."