Word: eyewash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens are buying more proprietary medicines (drugs sold without prescription) than ever before. Last week drug companies, Government officials and medical men were unable to explain the swelling demand for arnica, eyewash, ipecac and milk of magnesia...
...plane was shot down and none was damaged to an extent which precluded its proceeding to its final destination." When Tokyo announced last week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
This talk of saving the taxpayer money was of course sheer eyewash since the Treasury, if it chose to put out short enough maturities, could finance the war at a fraction of 1%, or for nothing if it issued greenbacks. Moreover, a 2¼% longer term issue would not have been out of line with current Government bond yields. But the Treasury feared that if it put out such an issue just now investors in the future might demand this higher rate on shorter maturities. This would jack up the price of money all around and might-so the argument...
...president called up Board Chairman Campbell for permission to make a change in plant methods. Campbell asked him what was stopping him. "Aren't you Chairman of the Board?" the president wanted to know. Says Campbell: "I said, 'For Christ's sake, that's eyewash. You run the job. I haven't heard from him since, but we are getting the product in a stream you couldn't believe...
Alkalizers. "The blood of a healthy person is no more in need of 'alkalizing' . . . than the eyes need an eyewash to keep them moist; with the common cold or grippe and . . . constipation, there is no accumulation of acid. . . . Fatigue, a 'dark brown' taste, a foggy feeling, jitters or headache are not to the slightest extent caused by 'acids in the blood...