Word: shave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma-Shave...
Such fresh little jingles, which Mathews and other U.S. motorists have found a bright spot in the monotony of driving, have been an even brighter spot to the Burma-Vita Co., makers of Burma-Shave. Thanks to this form of advertising, the company has doubled and redoubled sales of its brushless cream to a current gross of some $3,000,000 a year...
...Should shave before he starts to howl...
...Face-Shaving. While most of the princes were with Bhopal in hoping to weaken the central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow...
...efforts to prevent it, many of the mills had switched to more expensive goods on which they could make more money. When OPA died, they continued to do so because of abnormal demand. But when buyers' resistance began to be felt, manufacturers refused to shave their prices. Their profits were high enough-and demand for quality goods still heavy-so that they could take a chance on shutting mills making sleazy goods in hopes that the drop in buying was temporary. Some even talked of boosting prices of men's suits. But the bitter facts are that goods...