Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year Gillette Safety Razor has bought 9,049 shares of its preferred stock (redeemable at $105 a share). Price paid: $40 to $57 a share. Besides saving $45,245 in annual preferred-dividend requirements, these purchases also increase the equity of all shareholders by $435,000 -more than one-half second-quarter profits...
...hang around the place, chew the fat of the post, get a copy of True Romances, watch officer's and noncoms' wives come in for meat and groceries, make restrained horseplay with other fellows. There he can buy cigarets, souvenir ash trays, candy, razor blades, gasoline, Sunday uniforms-more than 6,000 items...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
...counts most in this transformation is Harvard's tall, razor-keen, 49-year-old President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...
...Then arrests and riots began. In the center of the town be-flowered crowds gathered, sang the national anthem and the royal song. Hastily the Nazis chased flower sellers off the streets and padlocked all flower shops. There were far too many flowers. In each flower was hidden a razor blade...