Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo last week, after 18 months of legal bickering and monotonous reading of documents, the drowsy courtroom in the old War Ministry building came to life. The chief characters of the climactic scenes were Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo and Ryukichi ("The Monster") Tanaka. Neither expected to live long. War Criminal Tojo expected to be hanged by the victors, whose newly written laws he boldly challenged; Tanaka expected to be assassinated by the vanquished, whose old, unwritten laws he had betrayed...
...Razor Blades & Babies. He was visiting Mexico in 1942 when the U.S. and Britain put him on their economic black list (TIME, June 29, 1942). This shut him off from his Swedish empire, but he fortunately made an influential new friend, the late Maximino Avila Camacho, enormously rich and powerful brother of then-President Manuel Avila Camacho. Wenner-Gren also had some spare change with him, $1 or $2 million. With Maximino's help he put the money to work...
...Peking University had survived the long war only by moving, lock, stock & barrel, 800 miles to Changsha, then trekking another 1,000 miles over mountains to Kunming. Back home again, Peking is still on the razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five...
...week for Gillette. First, the razor blade company launched a $1,000,000 campaign to plug its new bright blue plastic container for 20 blades (98?). Next day, the board of directors declared an extra dividend of 50? a share, raising 1947 dividends to $2.87½ a share, highest in the company's history. The following day, Gillette's 3,457 employees got an extra week's pay as a bonus for record production...
...King C. Gillette, whose mustachioed countenance is one of the company's trademarks, was once a bottle-cap salesman. While shaving one day in 1895, he tried to think of some invention as indispensable, disposable, and cheap as a bottle cap. Result: the first idea for a safety razor with a throw-away blade...