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Word: vue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...instance, he said absolutely nothing to imply that "Accurate vision without eyestrain is of front-line importance," or even that "best performance comes from Shuron Shurset Full-Vue glasses of Quality Beyond Question." And he left it for some enlightened advertising manager to warn: "Don't be a Public Enemy. Be patriotic and smother sneezes with Kleenex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "In Times Like These" | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...derricks, in fields which alone produce many times as much oil as Japan consumes. Around them lay the exotic square miles of California, in itself almost twice as big as the mainland of Japan. If the envoy was impressed, he did not show it. Behind his American-made Ful-Vue glasses his agate eyes were expressionless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Enormous Room | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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