Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company which had lost no passenger in six years and 40 million miles of multi-motored flying, does not simply collapse. Engines had not failed. Fuel tanks had not exploded. There was no fire in the air. The investigators found several curious points of evidence: The baggage compartment and toilet had been smashed to smithereens. The inside of the toilet door was pockmarked with bits of metal; the other side was unscathed. The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck. Bodies of Smith and the radio...
While reading your June 12 issue of the TIME I was amazed to find, under your "Toilet Kit Tempest" article, a reference to the Civilian Conservation Corps members as "forestry workers on the dole...
...toilet kit for the "Tree Army" compared with the 32? kit issued to the Regulars is nothing...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
Subpenaed by telegraph, Salesman Bevier hotly disagreed. The C. C. C., he said, "wanted a fine quality of toilet article." Before the whirlwind finish of his Washington sales campaign he had spent a fruitless fortnight interviewing captains and colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which...