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...Production Board ordered razor blades cut to one a week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V for Vandyke | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...shaver equipped with an abrasive wheel to rub off the whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...electric shaver is the culmination of years of effort by scientists and research men to help those unfortunate individuals who shave every morning, and then find that at five o'clock they are right back where they were in the morning. And yet what would you have them do? You, you heartless and unforeseeing fiends, would have them look at the radio section to make sure that they don't disturb your programs. this is of course only the beginning of your program ... Let me assure you ... that we "electric shavers" shall fight you tooth and nail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Derby carries the Schick Shaver, the Gillette Dry Shaver, the Sunbeam Shave master, the Remington Rand Close-Shaver, the Packard, and the new Glide Shaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DERBY'S FEATURES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR GIFTS | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

Whatever type of shaver you prefer, Derby has it, and the prices run from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DERBY'S FEATURES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR GIFTS | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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