Word: bleach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANTITRUST BATTLE is boiling up over Procter & Gamble's $30 million purchase of Clorox Chemical Co., biggest U.S. seller of household liquid bleach. Federal Trade Commission says that purchase gives P. & G. 48% of liquid-bleach market (v. 16% for nearest competitor), charges that combination of two companies may "substantially lessen competition" or "tend to create a monopoly" in home-laundry business...
...oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn't pay for the bleach because I didn't want my friends to know I bleach my hair...
...that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach-cleaned barracks, then decided to interrupt it with the night march-a form of stern discipline that had helped make a Marine out of many another boot...
Just across Kanellopoulos Street from a small British-owned bleach factory in Piraeus (the port of Athens) stands a building that was once a profitable bordello. Today, fitted with an imposing guard tower at each corner, it is the Greek government's Vourlon Prison, involuntary home of many a condemned member of Greece's outlawed Communist Party, serving time for their parts in Greece's bloody civil war, or for stirring up trouble since then...
...last week at the bleach factory opposite Vourlon, a watchman's 15-year-old daughter spotted four strangers on the premises, where she lives with her parents. "What are you doing?" she asked. "We're policemen," they answered, "and we just went inside to take a shower." At least part of the answer was true: calm as could be, the four had indeed been washing in the factory shower room. What they didn't tell the girl was that, along with 23 companions, they had entered the shower room through a 55-ft.-long tunnel, dug under...