Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate: Balddomed, small chinned, doleful and dull of mien, Senator McGill has only one conspicuous mannerism-a "haha" which he inexplicably tacks on the end of his infrequent speeches. His voting record is Yes to every Roosevelt proposal: so faithful is he that, along with New Mexico's Hatch, he tried to launch a substitute Supreme Court bill after the President himself had given...
Motoring down to Morgantown, Md., 55 miles below Washington on the Potomac, Mr. Roosevelt took Candidate Lewis along with him, permitted plump Republican Governor Nice...
...make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When Schicks later went on a mechanical assembly line, the price was cut to $15. Not long thereafter hundreds of thousands of men either had bought the shiny new gadgets or had begun saving their pennies toward that optimum goal. By that time, Schick had several competitors...
...prospector-inventor had met a promoter named Archie Moulton Andrews, had been persuaded to let him display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost...
...surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General Shaver Corp., a subsidiary of Remington-Rand Inc., which claims a current sales rate of 1,600,000 shavers per year, announced it would NOT tag along with the others on price revision...