Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1931 the U. S. company has been administered as part of the Lipton estate by Lord Inverforth and other Lipton trustees. Its sale last February brought it not only into closer union with the English company but into the corporate constellation of Unilever, Ltd., huge European margarine and soap combine (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Many a U. S. investor was surprised to learn last week that Lipton, Ltd. is among the myriad companies which Unilever dominates...
...Cleveland, the estate of Henry C. Wakeman, Detroit lingerie salesman who was fatally injured when he slipped on a cake of soap in a Cleveland hotel bathtub, lost a suit to collect industrial compensation for his death when Judge George P. Baer ruled that a traveling salesman's work does not include taking a bath...
Europeans use vacuum distillation to strip the flavor ingredients and vitamins from butter. Their vitamin concentrates are reported free from all taste, stable and suitable for mixture with foods. They also sublime hormones from urine, soap stock from fish, caffeine from coffee, quinine from cinchona bark...
...Parliamentary year is the one on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer "opens" his Budget in the House of Commons, because ever since 1917 Britons, great and small, though ruled for the most part by Conservatives, have paid out staggering income taxes. Outstanding British taxpayers like Lord Leverhulme (soap), Lord Wakefield (oil), Joseph Rank (flour & shipping) and Lord Nuffield (motors) are relieved of as much as 66% of their incomes by the Government, and it was these who faced the 1937 Budget with most fear and trembling...
...announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...