Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guardia field and neighboring airports one night last week rolled 59 trailer trucks hauling the largest single consignment of air freight in the history of commercial aviation. It took the entire cargo facilities of American Airlines and six other lines to carry the 112 tons. The shipment consisted of razor blades-25 million of them. They were flown to 381 U.S. cities, to appear simultaneously on 150,000 retail counters...
...week, sometimes takes work home to his apartment on Fifth Avenue or his country home in Westchester County. He smokes and drinks only occasionally, has no hobbies ("I play a little golf but not very well"), and seldom goes out evenings. He has a simple method for keeping his razor-sharp mind honed: "I just like to work...
...waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed his plane at Teterboro (N.J.) Air Terminal, just 36 hours and 5,300 miles away from Honolulu. Average speed: 147 m.p.h. It was the longest nonstop flight ever made by a light plane (1,700 miles longer than Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...York Daily News had good reason to sniff a new trend; its massive circulation was slipping a bit. The News was still the biggest U.S. paper (2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search...
Life with Daisy had its ups & downs, and on a Mardi Gras day just 30 years ago, Daisy threatened Satchmo with a razor as he stood at the corner of Liberty and Perdido Streets in full Zulu court regalia. Louis had had enough. He took a job playing with Fate Marable's band on the Mississippi River excursion boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such...