Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when Portland women got runs, they did not toss their laddered stockings into the wastebasket. Instead they sent them to the Salvation Army, where they were fumigated, packed. Then they were stuffed into the crates of fighting planes, en route to China...
With reckless good will, the U.S. public annually buys, sends and throws in the wastebasket an estimated 30 million dollars worth of Christmas cards.* Among the few thousands that don't go regularly into wastebaskets-just sometimes-are reproductions of art. The demand for Christmas cards done by artists has resulted in a growing business (about $500,000 in 1940). Today many a U.S. artist, selling up to 50,000 cards at a 10% royalty, makes a considerable part of his annual income at Christmas...
...audience of 75 people half filled Sever 11 yesterday noon to hear Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, and five other speakers advocate consigning the entire Neutrality Act to the wastebasket...
...late and he wasn't even sure how to get to the darn dormitory. Vag half-ran, half-walked across the Cambridge Common toward the Commander Hotel. He knew that was in the general direction of Radcliffe, but his face was flushed from hurrying and his mind was a wastebasket of torn-off thoughts. He couldn't even remember exactly what she looked like. He had danced with her when he crashed the Freshman get-together; taken her out for a cigarette; walked her home . . . and the conversation had never once sunken to the level of "What courses...
That list went into the wastebasket months ago. So had an even more optimistic one which preceded it. So did a third which followed it. OPM's fourth schedule called for 1.268 planes in April, 1,575 m June, and so on up to 3,300 in September 1942-the equivalent of present German capacity. April production beat the new schedule's quota-so far so good...