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Word: camay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult reading Blue prints in the dark, Vag discovered. But Pigs is Pigs, and the mingled odours of Camay, Camels and Camphorice quickly brought him closer to reality. (Why is it that Charley dislikes little babies, he thought, as he turned the page.) Casey is understandable, but this. Yes, Dan, I know Saltonstall won, but who ever heard of Tom Eliot? Yes, Gene. Benny Goodman did play at Carnegie Hall, but we can't have a campaign for Frankie Newton. Vag skipped a few pages, then pulled up short. Poor Joe, his knuckles raw, was still trying to break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of permitting every factory in an industry to spend most of its energies on war production and some of it in supplying civil markets, the concentration committee is drafting a program to allocate all non-essential production to a few plants which will give it their full attention. Brand-names and trademarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pigs is Pigs | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...much as 50? for one item in his stock. Broker Eggleston gets his wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops from Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Box-Top Broker | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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