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...where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved on to the grocer's. "Good morning, Madam," said the grocer. The Queen bought some soap and some washing flakes. Then she departed as she had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shopper for Essentials | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...there are no substitutes for it, not even soybean, castor or other oils, however processed. The versatile tung provides the fastest vegetable oil paint and varnish dryer. It gives to paints a tough, elastic, heat-resisting surface. It waterproofs paints and varnishes, printing inks, electrical insulation, brakebands, linoleum. It resists acids and is therefore a good interior coating for citrus fruit cans. So important is the oil that it is deliverable in the trade only on A-2 priority orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Tung Oil Wanted | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

GETTING SCARCE Woolens Nylon Stockings Rugs, Carpets & Linoleum Upholstery Fabrics Rayons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Merchants Take Stock | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...depended on the Far East for some 1,600,000,000 Ib. of vegetable fats and oils-to make soap, linoleum, paint, varnish, oleomargarine, shortenings, for many a food and manufacturing process. Pearl Harbor threw all this fat in the fire. At once domestic oils-soybean, cottonseed, linseed-felt the surge of the shifted demand, began to soar in price. OPA clapped on a price ceiling; but last fortnight, to prevent hoarding, OPM had to freeze all U.S. stocks of some 1,800 different fats and oils, domestic and imported. No food, soap or paint manufacturer can now carry more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Babassu, Have You Any Soap? | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Commuters' Center on Dunster Street, long infamous for its furnishings has undergone a drastic interior renovation. During the summer the main common room has been equipped with numerous leather sofas and arm-chairs, new linoleum flooring has been laid, and a new junior common room has been added and furnished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Hall is Completely Refurnished for Commuters | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

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