Word: bathtubfuls
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Before seeing the feature you'll have to sit through something called "Atlantic Convoy." Filmed in a bathtub containing model boats no self-respecting man would give to his kid brother, this film never even flickers...
...bootleg business is already more diversified, if not bigger, than it was in Prohibition's peephole days. To the still ample take from bathtub gin and moonshine* has been added the take from tires, scarce metals, chemicals, textiles, typewriters-even stockings...
...advance. He did this by dishing out a series of pretentious pictures which ran an enticing gamut from sex (Male and Female) and high living (Affairs of Anatol) to orgiastic uplift (The Ten Commandments). They earned him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a gold medal from the bathtub industry (for making cinemagoers bathroom-conscious...
...match shortage had become so acute that a girl could safely beg one from a strange man without being considered fresh. People were trying to keep clean on four 3-oz. bars of soap a month. Whiskey sold for $7 a bottle, and gin (except a bathtub variety) became almost unobtainable. Women stood in long queues to buy the Government's last stocks of canned goods...
Tires use up about 75% of U.S. rubber stocks. The other 25% has gone into 50,000 different civilian uses.* For U.S. women: no more elastic girdles and foundation garments. For children: no more teething rings, rubber rattles, bathtub toys. Circuses and parades will suffer: no more rubber balloons, no more giant rubber figures. Toy airplanes, automobiles, tricycles, scooters will no longer be rubber-tired...