Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked at the brown paper soap flakes box squatting sullenly in the middle of the floor, with a pyramid of books heaped up over its rim. Three years worth of junk, thought Vag, just taking up space. This year he would start differently. Vag seized the box with one hand and heaved the books out onto the rung...
...Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful but seedy soap operas...
...small (about 1 lb.), bony member of the herring family, the menhaden is the U.S.'s No. 1 commercial fish. Unpalatable, menhaden are valuable for oil (soap and paint), stock and poultry feeds, fertilizers. Massachusetts Indians showed the Pilgrims how to use them: plant a menhaden in every hill of corn...
...Progressive Broadcasting System hoped to perk up many of the 1,000.slowly expiring small unaffiliated stations of the U.S. with a daily infusion of ten hours of "live" and recorded shows. Hoping for a network of 350 stations (and needing 200 to break even), Progressive promised a familiar formula: soap operas, Hollywood gossip, a homespun philosopher named Cottonseed Clark, and such singers as Mel Torme and Connie Haines...
...indignation. Scare-buying and hoarding had slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...