Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaver equipped with an abrasive wheel to rub off the whiskers...
...step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral, may mix in no international intrigues, rub out no Hitlers. So last week Superman cleaned up a local mob bent on wrecking the Silver Clipper, a streamliner train; caught them after a quick repair job near Denver, heaving 20 tons of rock off a trestle and replacing missing rails in a jiffy...
...rub" has sold as low as 5? a pint. Of 3,257,096 gallons consumed in the U. S. last year, Government officials refused to estimate how much was taken internally, but estimates by States run from 10% to 75%. Technically therapeutic, rubbing alcohol is exempt from the $4.25-per-gal. Federal alcohol...
Year or so ago the Internal Revenue Bureau's Alcohol Tax Unit tried to limit "rub" to its lawful use by loading it with intestinal irritants. There were no com plaints from drinkers, but doctors pro tested that the alcohol was now unfit for many external uses. Month ago the tax unit tried again. Its ruling, effective last week: from now on no one but registered pharmacists may sell "rub...
...plant at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal it asked U. S. manufacturers to bid on a new assembly plant to turn out masks for Army use. Winners of three contracts were not among the nine U. S. commercial gas-mask makers. They were Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rub ber Co., and Johnson & Johnson, biggest U. S. surgical-dressing maker...