Word: elasticize
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Very little was said about John Consumer, who is the chief beneficiary of the lower prices made possible by mass buying. Smart, efficient independent merchants, able to offer quality and service which chains cannot afford to provide, do not worry about chain-store competition. But merchants of this type are...
The picture is a mealy hash of heroic emotions; sanctimonious sentiments on peace; monstrous international capitalists; baleful tunnel sickness; and huge machines, sinister in their unfeeling strength. It takes an extremely elastic suspension of disbelief to let this by.
Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs...
Explaining Grant's stubborn friendship with gross and clumsy thieves on the familiar "blind spot" theory, Dr. Hesseltine notes that the President was so conscious of his years of business failures that he considered any man who could make a little money as the possessor of vast and mysterious gifts...
Father Nieuwland helped the du Pont group under Wallace H. Carothers prepare the monovinyl, suggested catalysts for changing it to chlorobutadiene. Carothers found that after standing ten days in a closed vessel, chlorobutadiene became an elastic mass like rubber. Thus Duprene. Last summer du Pont announced that Duprene automobile tires...