Word: clothespins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolated Bridges ranch house on the morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...
...show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...
Hollywood Pin-Up. In going after the big buyers, Alcoa was not neglecting little markets. Typical was the "Hollywood Pin-Up," an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, "Alumilite," at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds...
...keep the aluminum plants competing with Alcoa. To Alcoa's mind this talk could best be silenced by creating a demand big enough to use all the metal the plants could turn out. It could turn the trick, if it could find a few hundred gadgets like its clothespin...
...simplest device of all consists only of a beer can filled with absorbent material and a clothespin to clamp on the nose. It is approved by no one except its inventor, Chemist Vernon Bowers of Baltimore, Ohio...