Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growing Pains. As king of the small-town drugstore, he found that the most lucrative end of the drug business was selling cosmetics. He decided it might be even more profitable to make his own. So he bought Chen Yu, big-selling "class" nail lacquers, for $2 million. When Chen Yu grossed $10.7 million in 1944, Ruskin bought or formed nine other cosmetic companies, including three in England. Now he is dickering for eight French companies...
...years Goddard held up to his staff the one perfect American Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO FRONT DOOR. Porter, who wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found that the prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never...
...Devils Lake, N.D., a five-ton elephant named Vera died of an infected toe nail...
Borowy, who promptly won his first start for the Cubs, might well nail down the pennant for them. In return MacPhail said that the Yankees would get unnamed players worth $100,000, or their cash equivalent. He added: "This is the first step in the general plan [for rebuilding] that Manager McCarthy and I have agreed upon...
...thorough tryout by the Army. has proved its value. Butyl's great virtue is that its carbon molecules have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood up for miles without going flat...