Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goetz's chemical kit, size of a cake of soap, weighs less than half a pound, will treat enough salt water to make two quarts of drinkable water - enough to last a careful man a week. The chemicals (secret) are simply mixed with sea water in any available container - a bucket, a boot or a helmet. When the muddy material settles, the clear liquid is treated with a second chemical swished around in a cloth like a tea bag, poured off, drunk...
...Blue Network wanted answers to these questions, last week made known the results of consulting a cross section of 5,000 U.S. housewives: >The major networks devote 79% of their daytime commercial hours to soap operas. But listeners pay attention to them only 50% of the time...
...Plenty (47%) of housewives do not listen to serials at all. A lot (28%) of those who do-plus 36% of all housewives -think that the air is sudsed up with too many soap operas. Most (60%) of those who listen four or more hours a day agree...
...Liquid soapless shampoo is gentler and more effective than ordinary soap for washing fuel oil from shipwrecked men, is now included in first-aid kits on many U.S. ships...
Last week the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare estimated that the Germans had plundered $36,000,000,000 worth of automobiles, petroleum products, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, hides, clothes, soap, toothpaste, razor blades, cotton, cattle, bauxite, cauliflower, fish, horses, wines, locomotives, trains, trackage, houses, seaport equipment, steel works, forests, trucks, tank cars, art collections, cattle herds, ships, in the countries of conquered Europe...