Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secondly, the Coop has grown into a full fledged department store. Its inventory-from soap dishes to suits-encompasses anything a student might possibly desire. It is a great boon to the students. And of course there's a dividend...
...Chicago soap-maker, he's a dangerous Communist. To a Cambridge townie, he's dirt and offal and something to beat up in a dark alley. To a society matron, he's completely eligible and quite charming. To another drunk at the bar, he's a good fellow...
...application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes before burns occur; lewisite burns immediately. But treatment for both is the same...
Less inventive, or perhaps higher principled, the Polish radio has contented itself with sardonic comment. Sample, referring to the new German short rations limiting food supplies and permitting one cake of soap a week: "Apparently Germans will not only have to be hungry from now on, but dirty...
...Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played all day in their schoolyards. When they tired of play, they broke into their knapsacks and ate their rations. The next three days were duller. London's school children just waited...