Word: petted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee Soapmaker Caleb Johnson, president of Palmolive Co., the Russian Revolution was a nuisance. On the day they assassinated the Tsar, a boatload of his pet Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...
4.As Congress opened in January, Republicans and Conservatives Democrats began gunning for Secretary Hull's pet project...
...Attach N.A.R.P.A.C. metal identification tags to all pets. An elderly woman promptly asked how to tag her pet, an eel named...
...raids, do not take pets to public shelters for human beings; leave them in special gasproof kennels, hutches, stables, pounds. You can buy a pet a fancy gas mask, but you can't make him wear it. - Every residential street has an "animal guard," who is not expected to be in the street while bombs are dropping, but who tends injured animals immediately afterward. After a raid, do not touch wounded pets-they may have mustard gas on them. Call an animal guard or use an R. S. P. C. A. Cat-&-Dog Grasper (long handle with adjustable noose...
...Remember that animals are affected by their masters' nervousness. In September, R. S. P. C. A. treated 198 London dogs injured in dogfights; in October, when war tension began to tell, 410. Give nervous pets bromide tablets. Dose: for a pet the size of a Pekingese, one five-grain tablet, two for terrier-size, three for chow, four for Airedale or larger...