Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stencil that fits over fingernails for quicker, neater nail tinting...
During the bitter-end battle over the withholding tax, many a financial observer nibbled his nails, brooding over the effect of the tax on war-bond sales, retail trade, family budgets. Last week, after three weeks of taxing, the first straws were fluttering in. Nail-nibblers could relax...
Until war's end, the Ford burden must inevitably fall upon the two most trusted men in the empire - tall, hawk-nosed Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge...
...powder (so called because the grains are spherical rather than rod-shaped) is formed chemically, not mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...
Between testifying on Capitol Hill and looking after her command, Oveta Hobby took time out last week to nail a canard. Columnist Walter Winchell had reported that, as North Africa's "biggest problem," the WAACs might be sent home. Said Colonel Hobby of Winchell's item: "Not only . . . without foundation, but the WAACs there are performing their duties so satisfactorily that General Eisenhower has requested many more...