Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Digest, which periodically runs "Consumer Reports" telling its readers about promising new products, had run across Jerclaydon's Glamorene, a new kind of rug cleaner. Before it recommended the product, the Digest, as it does with all new products, had it tested by Stamford's (Conn.) York Research Corp. Wallace gave Jerclaydon the results: ". . . after more than a thousand tests on over 100 rug-cleaning products the laboratory reported: 'Best rug-cleaning compound for home use we have found. Best on-location cleaner for institutional use.'" Adding that the Digest was preparing a three-page article...
Rise & Fall. Glamorene's makers, three brothers named Sheldon, Clayton and Jerold Hulsh, heeded the warning. They had been happy to sell about $40,000 worth monthly of their cleaner-a compound of cellulose fiber (resembling sawdust) and various cleaning agents which can be rubbed into a rug, then brushed out bringing the dirt with it. After they got the word from Wallace, they hired three fieldmen and in a whirlwind, 21-day tour, set up a nationwide network of salesmen...
...Then the rug was pulled out from under Glamorene, and the Digest got a bad scare. In San Francisco, a Pan American World Airways serviceman died after cleaning a plane's rug, and the coroner's jury reported that the victim had died from inhaling "halogenated hydrocarbon" from trichloroethylene, one of Glamorene's components. Professional rug cleaners gleefully took ads reproducing news stories about the San Francisco case and urging homeowners to avoid mishap by having experts clean their rugs. The health department banned Glamorene sales in San Francisco...
...fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose policy is to let the British have their way in Iran, let them have their way. A Western diplomat in Teheran wryly remarked that bargaining with Mossadegh reminded him of a Persian rug dealer who keeps upping his price each time he opens his mouth. The analogy might be apt, but unless Washington and London make some real effort to get Mossy's carpet while it is still for sale, the dealers in the Kremlin may still pick it up free...
...daylight Dominici took a walk along the riverbank in the direction of a car he had seen parked by the road the evening before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body of a small girl in pajamas, her skull shattered. Dominici sprinted toward the car. Under a plaid rug, among the roadside weeds, he found the body of a woman dressed in a kimona. Across the road, under an overturned camp cot, he found the bullet-pierced body of an elderly man in blue pajama pants...