Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoker. Taxis are trickling back to the boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...
With the rise of the oil industry, the number of whalers dropped. Yet the catch swelled enormously. Romance gave way to cold, scientific slaughter, chiefly to supply soap and oleomargarine makers. Whale ships became enormous floating factories, fed by small, 150-ft. killer ships firing harpoons tipped with explosive shells. (An electric harpoon, which paralyzes whales and keeps them from sounding, is now being tried out.) The whales were jerked aboard the factory ship through a hole in the stern, cut up and rendered into whale oil in a few gory, noisome hours...
...definitely-though not violently-poisonous. It should not be breathed or kept near the skin. After working with it, hands should be washed with soap. Only special dust mixtures should be used on pets or human beings...
Adapted to broadcasting, it may solve the problem of how to accommodate all the crooners and soap operas which clamor to get on the air. A single P.T.M. transmitter, for instance, atop the Empire State Building, might serve as a joint outlet for most of the studios in New York City. Listeners could concentrate on a single program, or, if they wanted to take the punishment, connect their receiving set (plus a little additional equipment) with loudspeakers in different rooms, each playing a different program...
...Processes for making synthetic butter, potable alcohol, soap and gasoline from coal...