Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked difference detween popular brands of World Wars I and II is the tendency to abandon women, lean instead towards insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
Physics B students were privileged to read a mimeographed copy telling of the new discovery. "The color exhibited by many specimens of the new element is a surface phenomenon and is usually due to a closely adhering powder. Some varieties tend to form Anne-ions, others Cat-ions...
Anybody dozing at last week's Congressional tax hearings (an easy feat) might have picked up some startling impressions between cat naps. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee was the Treasury's neat, mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul. In view of the Treasury's last-ditch opposition to the famed Ruml income tax plan, some of Mr. Paul's statements were enough to make anyone sit up. Said...
Standard's Bayway "cat cracker" is the first of its kind on the Eastern seaboard and the first to be publicized. Two others, proving the process, have been hot at work for months. Some 33 continuous-process "cat crackers" are scheduled, only a few of which will be operated by Standard itself...
...Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...