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Over 4,000 customer-veterans jammed the store on opening day. Many brought their wives and mothers along. They found choice items: electric fans for $8.40; soap powder for 4? a pound; bedspreads, 67? each; cigaret lighters, 17? men's white shirts for less than $2. First day's sales...
Holding hands across the table and rubbing knees underneath in the 'Cliffedwellers wing of the Widener Reading Room came to an unceremonius end yesterday when the lady bookworms departed for the basement of Memorial Church where a new study and powder room has been constructed for them...
...Revlon, which sells more lipstick and nail polish (other products: powder, rouge) than anyone else, all this was just new gilt on an old lily. When they founded Revlon in a $25-a-month office in 1932, Brothers Charlie, Martin and Joe Revlon decided to capitalize on names, beginning with their own. They had another cardinal principle: a woman's most important points, unless she's in a bathing suit, are her eyes, lips, hair and hands...
...Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
Even though some had wounds covered with molasses, lard, talcum powder, bluing, the surgeons did not debride, merely washed the burns with soap & water. Wearing surgical masks and using operating-room sterility procedure (to avoid infection), they wrapped the burned areas in gauze bandages, with or without a mild ointment (Dr. Elman: "None is really required"). They left on the original dressing as long as possible, usually ten to 14 days. After bandaging, patients able to stand were urged to get up and walk around. The only drug: anti-infection sulfathiazole pills...