Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as some U.S. manufacturers were about to pump up the price of tires by 5% last week, the General Services Administration punctured the air hose by announcing a 14?-a-lb. cut in the price of natural rubber. GSA Administrator Jess Larson wants the tiremakers to pass along their savings, $40 million in the next three months, to consumers. At 52? a lb., rubber is now 47% cheaper than last December, when GSA clamped the lid on skyrocketing rubber prices by taking over the buying of all natural rubber...
...last week to be photographed with a group of United States Attorneys and their families. He took a place in the front row, the photographers lifted their cameras, and the visitors quickly stiffened and stood looking as though they were about to be squirted with a garden hose...
...first glance this policy seems confusing and inconsistent, perhaps it may be clarified by comparing it with a fire chief who sends firemen to House A, which is not on fire, while denying a fire hose to the firemen fighting the fire at House B. The theory being that the fire hose will cause the blaze at House B to get bigger...
...nylon production, it built a $17 million plant at Camden, S.C. whose product may partially eclipse nylon itself. This fiber is Orion, a cousin of nylon but far stronger, more resistant to sunlight. The U.S. textile industry is already using it in men's summer suits and spun hose, women's dresses, auto tops and a wealth of new decorator fabrics. (But Du Pont will get stiff competition from Union Carbide's Dynel, an Orion-type fiber...
John Ross kept the news under his tan Stetson and went to work. He discovered that right after the murder Kirkes had ordered his coupe repainted, though the garage man insisted it didn't need paint. That same week the big patrolman grabbed an air hose away from a service station man and cleaned out the rear compartment of his car himself. Moreover, a faint mark on the dead girl's legs looked like the pattern of a rear-compartment floor mat found only in Ford coupes. The mat in Kirkes' 1939 Ford was missing...