Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers are accustomed to wash the shop up a bit, carry out of a few tons of rubbish, and then boast 'Our plant is just as clean as those of Ford.' This, of course, is nonsense. Ford has his smooth cement floors washed with soap three and four times a day. If the paint comes off anywhere a man shows up immediately with a brush and touches up the spot...
...Gary, Ind., Beulah Hopkins stepped out of her bath, stepped on a cake of wet soap, skidded across her bathroom, shot out an open window, dropped three stories, plumped, unhurt, into a sandpile...
...such was not the case. The whole soap industry was in the midst of a boom but the boom was false and frothy. What touched it off was a 3?-per-lb. tax on nearly all imported vegetable and fish oils in the pending revenue bill at Washington, a tax originally aimed by U. S. farmers at Philippine coconut oil. No matter how scented & savory, most soap is basically fat and caustic soda.† The trade paper Soap estimates that U. S. soap makers last year used 1,500,000,000 lb. of fats, of which two-thirds came from...
...stampede to stock up before the tax becomes law, dealers have kept the soap works running night & day. Warehouses are crammed. Retailers have passed the word on to housewives and bathroom shelves are piled high. The trade is usually stocked for about a fortnight but the supply is now sufficient for three months. Whether or not the tax is passed, Col. William Cooper Procter and all the other U. S. soap makers must wait a long, long time before the last cake of tax-free soap goes down the trap in suds...
...Last week Col. Prector, 72, lay critically ill of pnemonia in a Cincinnati hospital. †A by-product of soap is glycerine. During Depression, prices of glycerine dropped so low that soap makers let it run down the sewers. An unprecedented demand for anti-freeze mixtures during the winter, a pick-up in the use of industrial explosives and war talk has made the price of crude glycerine from a low of 4? per lb. in 1933 to about...