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...When London dock authorities opened 50 cartons marked "razor blades" they found nothing but black soil. The blades had been dumped on the black market...
Margaret was No. 3. The neighbors heard her black Scottie howling incessantly, mournfully in the blackout. When police arrived, they found Margaret dead, with a stocking around her throat. Like the other two, she had been strangled and slashed with a knife or a razor...
...State of Washington the Spokane Athletic Club started a Bundles for Congress movement: "Don't worry about the war & taxes: get that pension-forget the Axis." The jokers hired a huge truck, announced plans to drive it to Washington, filled with packages of old razor blades, night caps, broken phonograph records of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, straw hats, old tires, cracked dental plates, wooden legs, crutches, glass eyes. San Francisco offered a shipment labeled Save Your Truck For A Lame Duck...
First variety show reported to be menaced by priorities was Duffy's Tavern, sponsored by Schick Injector Razor (CBS, Thurs. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Others could be better spared. Since it started last March, Duffy's Tavern has made a name for itself as one of the best-balanced, most original screwball shows on the air. Archie, the head barkeep at Duffy's, has been so eloquently played by Astoria-born Ed Gardner that many a male listener has caught himself with imaginary elbows...
...plants. It makes wood woody, constitutes about 25% (by weight) of the coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned-except at a few enterprising U.S. mills...