Word: washers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo Negro car washer sidled a stranger, asked him point-blank if he wanted $231. Said the Negro: "I'm on the legit, boss. I ain't looking for no racket." Nevertheless he was lured to the downtown office of the National Depository of America. The U. S., explained the Depository, has $30,000,000,000 in idle, i.e. "decirculated," currency. It also has 130,000,000 people. This works out to $231 for each of them. To get yours, all you have to do is pay $1 a month to the National Depository of America. For this...
...window washer of a new-style safety belt is the Temporary National Economic (monopoly) Committee of advancing technology. Its chairman, Wyoming's Senator Joe O'Mahoney, is so fnghtened of better machinery that he has introduced a bill in Congress providing tax penalties for any employer who makes a "more than average" use of machinery...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...
Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...