Word: bleaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed Europe as Fugger linen left to bleach in the sun once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in the Tyrol, exporting textiles, metal and salt to lands beyond the seas, bringing back rare spices, furs and fruit. Almost one-third of Augsburg's 34,000 people were employed by the Fuggers, and kings and emperors knocked on Jakob's door for funds to wage...
...prevents perspiration odors from contaminating clothing was put on the market by American Cyanamid Co., will appear on Van Heusen's spring-line shirts. Applied to a textile, Cyana causes no change in the fabric's color or feel, remains effective even after 50 washings (unless chlorine bleach is used...
...short, or poodle, haircut filled them up-and home-permanent sales slumped 29% last year. Hair coloring, hardly respectable a few years ago, has grown into a $35 million do-it-yourself business and a $200 million beauty parlor market; three women in ten now tint, rinse or bleach their hair...
Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...
...Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...