Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1878 the Salvation Army has been practicing street-corner soul-saving. On the theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man's soul when his feet are cold and his stomach empty, it adds soup and soap to the salvation. Thanks also to Founder Booth, the Army's General long occupied the most autocratic throne of charity on earth, armed with a set of rules which gave him dictatorial powers, even to naming his successor. Son Bramwell was so named when General William Booth died...
Another, younger Murphy assistant, the watch dog of his outer office, is Mennen Williams, 25, a shaving soap grandson...
...Hobby Lobby is an NBC Wednesday nighter that now sells Fels-Naptha soap chips by rounding up collector's items in hobbyists. In its time, it has cluttered NBC's elegant Radio City studios with all sorts of oddities ranging from a man whose hobby was training parrots not to talk to one whose idea of diversion was letting people break paving stones on his head. There have been casualties of sorts. The paving stone idea, for example, looked a little risky to NBC. Chips from the granite, flying out from under the sledge hammer, might have...
Among other contemporaries of whom U. S. children sing are Macy's and Marshall Field's department stores, Mickey Mouse, Ivory Soap, Tootsie Rolls. Sample...
...pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built: $3,200,000); or 2) taking a chance that Congress would pass...