Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour's ride from the city. Two Japanese major generals and an interpreter came to get them. They took him to police headquarters, held him virtually incommunicado for three days. He was allowed to send his wife five guarded letters. She sent him pajamas, shirts and socks, soap, fruit, cigarets. None was ever delivered...
Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week...
...prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing cards for sugar, rice, soap, fats and oils were instituted, Minister of Agriculture Pierre Caziot warned the French nation that there would be severe rationing of butter, cheese and milk...
...Although soap operas do a fine business for their sponsors both in summer and winter, the grueling year-round grind of performing in them begins to tell on actresses when the days...
Reconstruction. Meanwhile, in Vichy, Petain and his Cabinet methodically set about the task of rebuilding ravaged France. There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general. Some foods were plentiful, but were withheld from hungry citizens by the breakdown of communications. Virtually all gasoline was in German hands; so were the northern coal mines, undamaged by the Nazi advance. Coffee and other imports were scarce...