Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like "Cover Girl" serves in time of war. Its beautiful costuming and fancy scenery must have caused an outlay of cash sufficient to make up a day's losses over Berlin. The manpower involved in its production might well have turned the tide at the Cassino hotel, and the celluloid expended enabled the RAF to take better pictures at the invasion coast...
Another thing that is a great deal more apparent today than it was in 1941 is the flimsiness of the entire subject. It is conceivable that a woman with no worries, troubles, or difficulties of any sort might be terribly unhappy, but to waste all that scenery and celluloid on it seems ridiculous today when the world seems to have been soaked through with paranoia...
...Marine flung TNT into a pillbox. When a Jap dashed out, a flamethrower caught him and he "flared up like a piece of celluloid...
...renowned question-now so much a part of the national idiom that even $64 prose stylists avoid using it-and quizmaster of one of U.S. radio's most popular shows, Take It or Leave It (CBS, Sun., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), Phil Baker was ready to put both on celluloid. But there would be one slight variation: to suit Hollywood's philosophy, the $64 Question would become the $640 Question...
...Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force...