Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual sales of $50 million or more that must report price and profit data. The commission ordered more rollbacks involving major companies, though relatively minor products. Textron Inc., for example, must rescind a price increase on snowmobiles, and Armco Steel will have to cancel hikes on such merchandise as soap and hammers sold in its oilfield supply stores, which account for less than 1% of Armco's sales. Both companies were also ordered to refund money to customers who were charged the higher prices. Associated Wholesale Grocers, which has sales of $240 million a year, became the second company...
City Lights was made during the turn into the 1930's, the cusp between the silents and sound films. Barely touching on the newer possibilities, it reaches into silent comedy's vaudevillian traditions for many effects and gags. Then after his chair has been moved, or accidentally substituting soap for his neighbor's cheese) is just one mark of his genius. We know that he'll flip his rescuer into the water as he struggles to get out, and we laugh uproariously anyway. Chaplin brings off new twists in a drunk scene and plays those familiar cliches with such finesse...
...look my ticket with a big smile, asking "All right?" I would answer "All right," and go to change. Our other communication was about the two showers, which were often too hot or too cold. I usually used the far one because there's a rule forbidding soap or shampoo (if you want to be clean you can jolly well take a hot bath and pay for it) and I didn't want to flaunt my transgression. When the shower wasn't working right, I would go over to tell him, picking my way carefully among squealing children and slippery...
THAT homespun homily by the turn-of-the-century soap manufacturer turned essayist hangs framed in countless offices and factories. It has long been accepted by both employers and employees as an accurate description of their relationship: loyalty in return for wages-love the company or leave it. But what if an employee has inside information about products that have hidden defects, factories that pollute, false advertising claims, price fixing, cost overruns or kickbacks? A growing number of workers are answering such questions by blowing the whistle on corporate misdeeds...
Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...