Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defeat for Dreamers. When these bedrock facts are firmly in hand, OCR will try to wangle an increase in certain civilian articles, the resumption of manufacture of others. The bulk of additional goods will be in "irritation items," large in U.S. usage, small in material requirements: needles, razor blades, nails, bobby pins, repair parts for household appliances and cars. OCR knows better than to ask manufacture of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (200,000 are still frozen...
After he has subdued his shadow, Bernie Baruch shaves himself with an old-fashioned straight razor. Then he climbs into old-fashioned long underwear (winter or summer), high-laced shoes with pull-straps at the back, and the suit his man Lacey has picked...
...evidence above, razor-sharp Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson, of the New York Daily News, is alarmed over the possibility that Wendell Willkie may be a Presidential candidate against Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. (Daily News circulation: 2,000,000 copies, largest in the U.S.). Since Franklin Roosevelt's candidacy is assured, and since Publisher Patterson, like his cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, badly wants an Old Guard Republican in the White House, the Patterson blows fall heaviest on Candidate Willkie. At regular intervals, anti-Willkie, anti-Roosevelt Mr. Patterson keeps the ball rolling with the editorial query...
...companies whose war contracts face renegotiation, the War Department Price Adjustment Board last week showed the razor edge of its scalpel. During the year ended May 1, PAB revealed that contracts totaling $18,500,000,000, held by 1,658 companies, have gone under the knife. Two-thirds were found to have excess profits. From them the U.S. recovered $1,866,000,000 in excess profits, almost two-thirds of it from price reductions on future deliveries...
...These young naval officers that we see about the place, all wearing terrific piratical beards, are now the lucky fellows," sighed Novelist J. B. Priestley in a BBC broadcast in which he modestly boasted that he had been using the same razor blade for a month. "Women say they dislike beards," said he, "but that, I fancy, is because women can't help having a secret and uneasy respect for the bearded male, a respect they don't feel for us smooth-faced fellows...