Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitched with a horrible intensity and all the passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing, either...
...trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...bath time. And it is not earlier than 10:00 that the Friendly Nurse barks into the snoring student's car, "Ha-ha-ha--I guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...
Morale. The Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., which employs 496 foundry workers, has a plan to make working in a foundry pleasanter-and also cut down the danger of infection from dirt, acids, etc. The company pays 25? a day to every worker who takes a shower bath at the plant before going home. The company reported last week that it paid out $28,837 in 1948 shower money...
Modern Convenience. In Warren, Ohio, Mrs. Laura Brandt, thinking she was using water from the rain barrel, bathed the children, washed the dishes, took a bath and then discovered when she brushed her teeth that she had used her husband's crop of maple...