Word: kleenexes
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...drawing up blue laws for industry, the War Production Board threw all but two score of its war time restrictions to the winds, giddily told startled U.S. manufacturers to make all the automobiles they wished (see BUSINESS). The same went for washing machines, ironers, pots & pans, electric razors, pottery, Kleenex, toys, radios, suits, dresses, storage batteries and photo graphic film...
Shelves Full. In some ways it seemed almost like a prewar summer. Talk of rationing and shortages dropped to a whisper: after two and a half years of war, the hardest things to get were kleenex, Camel cigarets, and shirts from the laundry...
...white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...
...dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems all but inspired...
...situation when Shuron Shurset, Kleenex, Dr. West, and other who are equally busy in these troubled times, must make patriotism real and functional. It isn't until one uses deodorants "under arms for a nation under arms" that the term so flatly defined by Mr. Webster takes on true meaning. It is only when the Mum Company asks: "Are you your own fifth columnist? Do you sabotage your personal attractiveness with underarm perspiration on short wave broadcasts?" that the word becomes utterly challenging...