Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, Allen suggested a "world symphony" to sell his soap ("We'll have 300 violins piped in from California . . . trombones from Texas . . . 90 French horns direct from Marseilles"). But it would not do, said Allen. To the tune of Tit-Willow, he explained...
...make the soap with the built-in bubble
...want of slaughtered livestock, soapmakers lacked tallow and grease to keep up their three billion pounds a year production. Many would have to shut down. For want of soap, laundries all over the country had to reduce their laundering; millions of housewives did the same; wool producers (to whom soap is a major necessity) lamented: "No woolens." For want of glycerine, a by-product of animal fats, General Electric could not get the lacquer it needed to finish thousands of refrigerators. For want of industrial soap and stearic acid, all synthetic rubber production in Akron was expected to drop sharply...
...that all of these secondary shortages were caused by the ramshackle structure of controls left by the slowly collapsing OPA. OPA could not be blamed for some of the basic shortages caused by 1) abnormal demand and 2) the worldwide shortage of certain raw materials, notably fats & oils for soap...
...Struck Out. In Detroit, Dwight Sutherland liked baseball broadcasts so much, objected so strongly to his wife's fondness for soap operas that he finally broke the radio over her head...