Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...
...touch of a button her blond, urbane skipper, Captain Olaf Mandt Hustvedt, gave her the works. Her answer was a belching, searing flame, the shattering roar of the heaviest broadside ever fired by any warship of any Navy on any sea. All nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
...Moscow radio, with its best button-nose deadpan, last week reported that the following story was current among German soldiers...
...Button-bursting with pride, mother and friends sent the letters on to Canadian newspapers which published them. Roy's exploits were confirmed by a letter from "Air Vice Marshal Dollard" to his mother, dramatized over the air by Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Soon Buckley was Canada's most popular, most publicized air hero...
...bleak, remote northwestern China a button-eyed boy named Tuteng Tueh-chi was solemnly examined by Chinese officials from Chungking. They investigated tales of signs and portents which had supposedly attended his birth three years ago. Finally they were satisfied that he was indeed the reincarnation of a round-bellied little man who had died shortly before the youngster was born. And last week they told the world that the little boy is the Panchen or Tashi Lama, Buddha of Boundless Light and spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 rancid Tibetans and Mongolians...