Word: stropping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the safety razor and the electric shaver have thoroughly conquered the U.S., many Europeans still strop their own razors or visit a barber for a shave. This naturally makes Europe highly attractive to the world's razor-blade makers. Throat-cutting competition for the market is raging between Boston-based Gillette Co., world's biggest producer, and Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd., whose introduction of the long-lasting stainless-steel blade changed the whole nature of the market (TIME, May 1). Stainless blades now account for almost 70% of British blade sales, 35% of the German...
...opinion a double release toepiece with a release cable is the best combination. Properly adjusted the binding will prevent many accidents and you will do well to come with the set. In any case buy a so-called "Ariberg Strap" with the binding. A simple release strop will not prevent the ski from whirling around once the binding has released. A binding costs around $15 to $18, depending on the selection of the toepiece. In no case, however, should beginners use the swivel heels, since they do not provide adequate safety in forward spills...
...advertising campaign to debeard the U.S. male. So successful was Gillette that his face became a medicine-cabinet fixture and the close shave a daily ritual. With firm patents on its razor and blade, Gillette was unnicked by competition until the '20s, merged with its major rival (Auto Strop) in 1931. But mismanagement and a stock scandal during the '30s sent Gillette's sales tumbling, forcing the company in 1938 to hire Joseph P. Spang Jr. away from meat-packing Swift & Co. to straighten Gillette...
...Havana. Graham Greene's novel makes a Britannically amusing film that begins as a good mockery of international spies, ends on the strop of political satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward...
...Havana. Graham Greene's novel makes a Britannically amusing film that begins as a good mockery of international spies, ends on the strop of political satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward...