Word: soap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered it was a potent water-softener. The Mellon Institute investigated possible uses. Now the onetime curiosity is used in vast quantities by textile mills and laundries as a soap-saver; in hotels for dishwashing; for cleaning shrubbery and bathing dogs...
Tennessee who unexpectedly wins a Pulitzer Prize, is hauled off to Manhattan to versify on a radio program for a soap manufacturer whose competitor is about to offer a criminal "March of TIME" on the air. The Pulitzer Prizeman throws his employer out a window of the Empire State Building, hangs a radio announcer, wakes up. Reviewers compared Crime Marches On with The Tavern, produced by George M. Cohan in 1920, which did not make any sense either...
...forecast yet anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans are trying to steal our clothes on that issue...
Well primed was the Mayor last week when a representative of the United Parents Association appeared at City Hall to protest that school washrooms were shy on soap and towels. Blazed the Mayor: "Any time the Board of Education has the courage to cut out its rotten, dishonest custodian system, we'll be able to give the children what they need. Go to any principal and point out uncleanliness in a school and he'll turn pale and say 'My God, I can't help it. I have no power over the janitors.' I never...
...bean oil for paints, varnishes and soft soap, soy beans are crushed into flakes, treated with hydrocarbon solvent such as hexane or benzene. The oil and the solvent are filtered off. The solvent is recovered from the oil by distillation; from the mash by steaming under pressure. Last week's jury of scientists looked along this line of operations for vulnerable spots. They found that two 4,000-gal. tanks of hexane had not exploded. Neither had the two 50,000-gal. oil storage tanks, nor the stills, nor the pressure apparatus. The blast, in fact, seemed to have...