Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...
...Dressing (see below), this is a casual musicomedy in which there are no chorus girls and most of the songs are allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien...
Procter & Gamble announced last week that it had sold more Ivory soap, P. & G., Jap Rose, Camay, Chipso, Crisco and all other P. & G. products in the first three months of 1934 than in any other quarter in the 97 years of its history. In dollars its sales were only at the 1932 level but in tonnage the quarter set a record. Earnings were $4,031,000 against $2,451,000 in the same period of last year. To Chairman William Cooper Procter, who makes 40% of all U. S. soap, the future should have appeared fine and dirty...
...Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov and a few other big cities. They are actually 5-kopek (4?), 10-kopek (9?), 25, 50 and 100-kopek or one-ruble (87?) stores. Like all Torgsin stores they are designed as bait for foreigners' money. For 5-&-10 they sell knives, tumblers, toothpaste, soap, pins, pencils, notebooks, candy, sandwiches, tea, coffee. And last week Mr. Gordeeff claimed for U. S. tourists' ears that some Torgsin prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate caramels, 23?; 1 lb. of canned meat, 12?; ½ lb. of black caviar...
...coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel and clothing for Eskimos. Each spring they swim down to bear their young on the Labrador ice fields, be clubbed by Newfoundlanders, become soap, pocketbooks, slippers and knicknacks for citizens...