Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. One of every four girl "car hops" at the city's drive-ins was found to be venereally infected. Said a social worker among the professional prostitutes: "The girls are sore as all get-out. They say the young chippies who work for a beer and sandwich are cramping their style...
...British sailor at the Canteen was so overjoyed to see mustard that he smeared it on a jelly sandwich...
Libbey-Owens-Ford went into plastics to manufacture the plastic sandwich-filler used between pieces of plate glass to make shatterproof automobile and airplane windshields. Recently Du Pont, pioneer of plastics, announced that it had put its sandwich filler to completely new uses...
...chocolate soda, a sandwich, occasional sips of water, vast, durable Kate Smith topped the shattering, 17-hour war-bond-selling grind of moderately vast Charles Laughton (TIME, Oct. 12) by three hours and $1,675,550. She sat down at a mike at Manhattan's WABC at 6 a.m., one minute later answered the first phone call from a bond-buyer, answered calls for the next 20 hours at the rate of two a minute. At 6 p.m. she complained of a sore neck, asked somebody to hit her. No one did. At 2 the following morning...
Critics point out that while the men on Bataan were slowly starving on mule-meat, they picked up short-wave exhortations to go to the ice box and make a luscious cheese sandwich. Since most of the shortwave broadcasts are made from records; it would be a simple matter to leave out the commercials...