Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters from every Tom, Dick & Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found...
...newspapers. There are plenty of persons who know far too much about their immediate difficulties and are busily enlisting the support of their neighbors for various plans to end poverty, sedition, war, or profits. From Ogden Mills to Earl Bowder the contemporary scene is peppered with eloquent men on soap boxes. It might seem that a certain intellectual perspective and depth of thought rather than an opinionated familiarity with the facts would supply the better approach to the problems of the century...
...Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture is the new god. Russia is drifting toward soap...
...point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace officers beat their way through a cornfield in pursuit, found nothing but husks. Near Moberly, Mo., a woman let into her farmhouse three men who wanted soap and water, told her one of them had cut his finger. After asking her if she had any weapons to fit .32 or .38 calibre cartridges, they left. An hour later a garage owner said a man tendered him five $100 bills for a new car, then fled in the old car when...
William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...