Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alvey crawled to him, felt his pulse. He was dead. Alvey crept on around the plane picking up candy bars. He had bought twelve Hershey's and twelve Oh Henrys at Casper and had 20 of them left. He also had three packages of cigarettes, and a cigarette lighter. He built a fire, cut the brown cowboy boot off his swollen ankle, and leaned back to wait for a rescue party...
...Flame. In Washington, Ralph Miller asked a stranger for a light, claimed the lighter he had lost three years ago in the South Pacific...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
...that, 150 Keevil workers went on strike, refused to arbitrate until Bryant was reinstated, appealed for support to Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. No Keevil provisions reached the shops, frustrated housewives bit their nails, and clever Jack Bryant sat at home with his six kids, snapping his lighter...
...bogus $10 bills has recently been passed- WCAU-TV televised a counterfeit and a genuine ten-dollar bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...