Word: lite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love Lite"-a small boudoir lamp that exudes an aphrodisiac fragrance...
...bluejacket was sweating a little in his clean and faded dungarees. His answers came jerkily and he was nervous. He was being tested for admission to the U.S. Navy's corps d' élite, the submarine service...
...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...
...picture of Cheyfitz on page one, flatly accused him of starting the strike. Snarled the News: "He is a regular member of Communist caucuses." The reliable Plain Dealer also blamed Cheyfitz for most of the trouble, cited a Dies report that he was "active in the bloody [Electric] Auto-Lite strike in Toledo...
Toledo, with 500-odd industrial plants, had $60,000,000 in prime defense contracts (Willys-Overland, Electric Auto-Lite, Spicer Manufacturing) and $65,000,000 in subcontracts. In a city like Toledo, that is chicken feed. Toledo is chiefly a partsmaker for Detroit; and with Detroit auto production scheduled for a 48.4% curtailment in December, Toledo's 51 parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next...