Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
Along a big new concrete chute at the Akron (Ohio) airport last week, 130,000 people, more than regularly attend any U. S. sporting event except the Indianapolis auto races, jammed together to watch the finals of the fourth annual All-American & International Soap Box Derby. The racers, selected through elimination races sponsored jointly by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors and 120 U. S. newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants...
...campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence in Washington had forced his wife to curtail plans for a huge dinner dance in their Newport, R. I. country house: "I would have taken soap wrappers if they had been offered...
...solicitors from whom Broker Young would gladly have purchased $15,000 worth of soap wrappers were a group of pressure salesmen who got a 50% commission on campaign book sales. Senator Wheeler read a letter from Manhattan Lawyer Watson Washburn who said he had been notified that one of the salesmen who had approached Broker Young was one N. M. Lichtblau. Wrote Lawyer Washburn...
...About the copyright] "This is a lovely question. . . . The reason the book was copyrighted by Sol Bloom is that the Government is not permitted to copyright anything. ... I did not want any cheap life-insurance companies or toilet-soap companies to take this book and use it for advertising purposes...