Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from distributors one old record for every three new ones bought. Reason: reclaimed materials stretch virgin shellac three times as far. The man in the street did not yet have to chip in with old records, but many retail shops were angling for them, paying 2½? to 3? a record...
Sons o' Fun. Helzapoppin's first-born is a blue chip off the old block (TIME...
Tickets are bought, not through a cage-barred wicket, but over a hip-high counter of light natural birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...
Sons o' Fun (TIME, Dec. 15). Helza-poppin's first-born is a blue chip off the old block...
...bright red pajamas Lawrence W. ("Chip") Robert Jr. popped out of a plane in Atlanta one midnight last month, rushed with seven other members of Georgia's Board of Regents to a nearby building, there convened a special meeting of the board. Purpose: a last desperate effort to save Georgia's academic reputation. The regents hurriedly voted to rehire two educators they had previously voted to fire at the behest of Governor Eugene Talmadge (Dr. Walter D. Cocking and Dr. Marvin S. Pittman-TIME, July 21; July 28), then let Regent Robert resume his trip...