Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn out an average of four new songs a week Procter & Gamble (Ivory Soap) hired Composer Arthur Schwartz and Lyricist Howard Dietz at an estimated weekly salary of $1,250 each. Book for the show was written by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Last week's installment of The Gibson Family ended where the first act of a theatre musicomedy usually ends. Father Gibson is suspicious of Dude Rancher Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable...
Today Jewel Tea sells more coffee than anything else but fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...
...height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
...Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...
...Lacey learned what had happened, nodded, called for soap flakes and ammonia. These he calmly poured into the nitroglycerin, announced that the explosive was "neutralized." Under his supervision the mixture was carried outside and poured down a sewer...