Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Item-of-the-week on the economic front was an advertisement by the Admiralty Marshal of the British Contraband Control, offering for public sale "200 dozen baby's rubber pants," seized from the Danish freighter Helvig...
...beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton's own right eye, keeps his face drawn in a deformed grim ace. How the false eye, which is much lower in the face than Laughton's real eye, winks and blinks is Make-up-man Westmore's secret...
...farm implements made up 7.7% of the total. By 1936 its gross from farm implements alone had topped $33,000,000. Farm implement sales were 2.9% of its earnings in 1927, 66.3% of the net nine years later. Among the reasons for this are that Allis-Chalmers introduced rubber tires on tractors (today 45-60% of all tractors sold are rubber-tired), and pioneered a small (six-foot) combine (harvester) aimed for use on the 2,694,000 U. S. farms of less than 100 acres. (It now has a 42-inch combine...