Word: ronson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hands. One of the eeriest features of television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...
...back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters and a nationwide sponsor (Ronson lighters...
...developed granular white powder which G.I.s call "fire roe." Mixed with gasoline it forms a jelly that sears and sticks to everything it touches. New instruments of war have been developed to handle the jelly-the M22 portable thrower with a revolver-type ignition system, the Ronson-type tank-mounted thrower, and airplane bombs ranging from...
...what the civilian smoker will get. There will be 175 billion of them available this year, plus 125 billion book matches. Thus, statistically, each of the 100 million civilians old enough to play with matches could get 3,000 for the year. Lighters are reducing match consumption. Last week Ronson lighter officials estimated that there are some 40,000,000 lighters in use, including those in the armed forces...
...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...