Word: fastener
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Stud-Shooter. Remington Arms brought out a new portable stud-driver which uses a .32-cal. blank cartridge to "shoot" a steel stud into such tough construction materials as concrete, steel, brick and asbestos siding. (Studs are used to fasten tough surfaces together or to attach fixtures.) Lighter than most other stud-drivers (5 Ibs.), Remington's Model 450 is also faster, will drive five studs a minute. Price...
...National Production Authority last week put pencils on its defense priority list. Under the new Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, April 23), pencil manufacturers will now get enough copper to make the brass they need to fasten erasers to pencil tops. Exulted Eagle Pencil Co.'s Sales Manager David E. Price: "It's taken the years since the war to convince the Government that nothing starts without pencils...
...modern refinements: his big moment came when he swallowed a lighted neon tube. Still later, he took on mind reading. One routine that proved too much for him was the Human Pincushion act (sticking pins through his flesh). He did manage to sew buttons on his wrists and fasten his shirtsleeves to them, but he never could get used to the pain. One artist that Mannix did not even try to emulate was the Human Ostrich. The Ostrich swallowed white rats and frogs and brought them up again...
...Tory leader said in passing that he resented Stalin's recent description of Attlee as a warmonger. "I thought this was quite untrue," he said. "It was also unfair because this word warmonger was the one that Mr. Attlee's friends and followers were hoping to fasten on me whenever an election comes. Stalin has, therefore, been guilty not only of an untruth but of infringement of copyright...
...find enough to fasten a tooth...