Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production Board ordered razor blades cut to one a week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...
...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...
...When London dock authorities opened 50 cartons marked "razor blades" they found nothing but black soil. The blades had been dumped on the black market...
...ince, permitted fraudulent election practices, thereby disgracing the uniform he wore. That was why the two men faced each other now. Wrists had been band aged, heavy double-edged sabers examined. The points were sharp as needles; front cutting edges "and the first third of each back edge were razor keen...
Margaret was No. 3. The neighbors heard her black Scottie howling incessantly, mournfully in the blackout. When police arrived, they found Margaret dead, with a stocking around her throat. Like the other two, she had been strangled and slashed with a knife or a razor...