Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper bag...
...years Republicans have pointed to Albany's horse rooms and slot machines, to saloons that ran all night selling Hedrick beer, manufactured by the O'Connell family, to high local tax assessments, to the unwillingness of industry to move to Albany and "put its head in the bag." But under nine consecutive Democratic administrations, the O'Connells enjoyed immunity...
...Today it is off precisely the same percent on the tally sheets of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare-and half the drop has occurred in the six months since Allied air power grew up. This week the Eighth Air Force tabulated its daytime share of the bag...
Above them the two Navy airships had collided and one had collapsed. Farther out, where no shore watcher could see, her control car and bag had tumbled crazily into the water. Only one enlisted man of her crew was rescued. The other airship, only superficially damaged, got safely back to the Lakehurst base...
...Shapeless water bag prevalent in North Africa...