Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the proprietors of the local apothecary shops specializing in liquid prescriptions tear their hair, the sandwich shop men rub their hands in delight, for many is the edible carried into Mower, Lionel, and Strauss, to stave off that gnawing hunger that comes...
Scissors & Paste. Since 1918 Gilbert Farrar has been in business for himself. He remodeled some 20 Spalding sporting catalogues. Twenty-two years ago he designed a Vick's Vapo Rub package which is still used. But not until 1936 did Gilbert Farrar strike oil: he streamlined the Los Angeles Times so effectively that the next year the Times won the annual N. W. Ayer award for typographical excellence...
...York and give Wendell Willkie another chance? . . . He speaks his mind frankly and clearly on matters of public interest and importance. (Ay, there's the rub, he probably does not suit the politicians. But maybe he suits the people.) He has visited and met many of the most important personages of earth-men who will have much to do with shaping the course of events in the next few years, and has won their confidence...
...answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something away. The difference...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...