Word: spick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...
Outside Philadelphia, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. opened its spick-&-span $26,000,000 plant with a blare of publicity. A month later the Navy canceled its contract with Budd...
...last week carry a pension. General Eisenhower's honorary pension would amount to 20 rubles a month, officially worth $3.85, actually worth nobody knows what. The General will receive something else more substantial: a little red passbook entitling him to ride, gratis, any time, on Moscow's spick-&-span, 25-mile subway system. Also on trolleys and busses...
With the aid of a spick-&-span new automatic press and four assistants (two are Army men who work part time), pipe-smoking, cap-wearing Horace Moore is doing the best he can. But gone are the five-day weeks and the life of Riley. Whitehorse's frosty, ink-stained paradise has been invaded...
Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...