Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of Washington the Spokane Athletic Club started a Bundles for Congress movement: "Don't worry about the war & taxes: get that pension-forget the Axis." The jokers hired a huge truck, announced plans to drive it to Washington, filled with packages of old razor blades, night caps, broken phonograph records of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, straw hats, old tires, cracked dental plates, wooden legs, crutches, glass eyes. San Francisco offered a shipment labeled Save Your Truck For A Lame Duck...
...last month in the Boston Herald: "Try driving 400 miles, as I did yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...
First variety show reported to be menaced by priorities was Duffy's Tavern, sponsored by Schick Injector Razor (CBS, Thurs. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Others could be better spared. Since it started last March, Duffy's Tavern has made a name for itself as one of the best-balanced, most original screwball shows on the air. Archie, the head barkeep at Duffy's, has been so eloquently played by Astoria-born Ed Gardner that many a male listener has caught himself with imaginary elbows...
...plants. It makes wood woody, constitutes about 25% (by weight) of the coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned-except at a few enterprising U.S. mills...
Spot. In Little Ferry, N.J., Barber Frank Circkirillo shaved off the whiskers of a new customer, recognized him as the man who stole his boat five years ago. Plying his razor, he drew a confession of guilt, then released him when the customer showed his Navy enlistment blank...