Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Larry Crosby, Bing's inventor brother, announced that he had built a mousetrap that was apparently no better (see cut). "I've had the thing for years," he confessed, "and I haven't even had a nibble, not even from a mouse...
...paper enterprise in Kansas City, he can figure up how many he can get by taking the Kansas City population and subtract those in top places at the Star, the City Hall and the Chamber of Commerce. All the rest would beat a pathway to that better mousetrap...
Frisky Business. In Denver, Patrolman William Church searched a drunk's pockets, got nipped by a mousetrap...
...Mousetrap. "Jodl was a quiet man who spoke little, but when he spoke, it was always clearly, frankly and to the point. Now he also came out strongly against Hitler. He declared very firmly that he, personally, would not stay in Berlin; he thought it was a mousetrap, and his job was to lead the troops, not stand with a flintlock in his hand defending the city and in the end dying in the rubble of its ruins...
Fifteen years after World War II, the U.S. was bankrupt. Industry had not exported so much as a mousetrap since the rest of the world had gone all out for synthetics and self-sufficiency. Unemployment and race riots swept the country. A terrible apathy descended upon the people of America ("Yes," sighed a visiting Chinese, "that's how my people were for 1,000 years"). No one guessed that a new world was just around the corner...