Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They hired another fine little woman in my county, the wife of a professional man who needed not the position, and paid her $127.50 per month to teach the good old country housewives out in the hills how to make soap-and God knows she had never seen an ash hopper in her life! In two other counties in my district the New Dealers have employed three men, Government agents at good salaries, to roam over the hills in Wright and Howell Counties hunting for Indian mounds. After several weeks' search I asked if any mounds had been found...
...Soap sales boomed the first quarter of last year when retailers and the public stocked up before the 3?-per-lb. tax on imported vegetable and fish oils raised prices. Last week Procter & Gamble reported fourth quarter earnings of $3,458,000 which brought earnings for the calendar year to $14,000,000 against...
...America, president of the Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., a financier by trade. A quick thinker, direct in action, a good organizer, the new national commander set out to fulfill the program given him by the Legion at Miami. That program included getting Congress to appropriate money to develop Soap Lake, Wash., to break off diplomatic relations with Russia, to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, to provide more cemeteries for War veterans. However, Financier Belgrano's chief job is to get cash, $2,000,000,000 of it, for all veterans here...
...Chorus Girl in the Country" in which a strange looking baggage came out, flitted stiffly about the stage, went through a pantomime to suggest milking a cow, then flitted ott again. A handsome, Junoesque blonde named Betzi Beaton (Follies) stared wall eyed at the audience, blew a few soap bubbles, huskily mumbled a few incoherences, sidled off into the wings...
...have complete command. His critics felt that he was lacking in gratitude for all Philadelphia had done for him. Though the board issued no formal statement on the subject, the views of some of its members were reflected in the Philadelphia Record, partly owned by Samuel Pels (Fels-Xaptha Soap), one of the board's vice presidents...