Word: doodad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Walter Winchell thought he had a hot tip on a romance. In his column last month, he passed it on in the leering questions: "What was His Honor, the Mayor, buying in Tiffany's the other antemeridian? Some doodad for his delovely?" New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer denied it. Not being a radio commentator, he said, he couldn't afford Tiffany...
...explanation, Keyholer Winchell printed another item: "License plate NYC i is owned by I. Geist (Manhattan Blouse Manufacturer Irving Geist). The Mayor uses a tag with many numbers. NYC i was in front of Tiffany's recently, which explains why a tipster thought His Honor was on a doodad spending spree...
From its Washington sampling, the committee estimated that U.S. car buyers had been "mulcted" at an annual rate of $450 million in the first seven months of the year in low trade-ins, tips and doodad accessories. There was nothing illegal about the deals. But Committee Chairman W. Kingsland Macy trumpeted that the auto industry "must police its own backyard" or face mandatory price controls. To police the backyard, Ford had already fired 23 dealers for grey marketeering. Most carmakers, while holding their own prices far under true market values, had actively campaigned against it. This week General Motors notified...
...Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson last week had surprising news for the U.S. people. The U.S. civilian economy, which during the year has seen the manufacture of not one new civilian automobile, refrigerator, washing machine, alarm clock, trouser cuff, radio or many a smaller doodad or furbelow, has been cut about as deeply as it will be. The problem now is to simplify, standardize, produce more of the things Americans must have from the materials and manpower now available...
...Bats Fly. A doodad for ships sounding the ocean bottom is the echo-recorder, which shoots down supersonic waves (sound of higher pitch than the human ear can hear), gauges the depth by the time it takes the waves to bounce back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from...