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Word: soaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring more commerce to the railroads than they take from them. . . . I challenge the roads to produce one instance of a freight train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Rivers, Roads & Rates | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Norwegian industries at a standstill last week were: shipyards, textiles, leather, tobacco, pulp, paper, rubber, soap, shoes, electro-chemicals, chocolate, clothing, sawmills, building trades, electrical and printing industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Porsgrund Outrage | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...submit that there is a risk of educational ballyhoo as well as of commercial ballyhoo. It is not so vulgar; it is less aggressive, different in form, quite different in motive; but is it not more or less the same fundamentally-an assertion that this labeled brand of soap is the only soap? It has been discovered that this is not the way to sell goods to a radio audience. . . . Ballyhoo . . . violates the first principles of showmanship and presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bringing Up Radio | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...fellow Cincinnatians, who perhaps because of their community's nickname ("Queen City") like to dub their chief citizens "Knights," he became a knight hospitaler. Another knight hospitaler is Col. Procter's father's and grandfather's partner in the Procter & Gamble candle and soap business, James Norris Gamble, 95, who still lives in Cincinnati and who has given $1,500,000 to Cincinnati's Christ Hospital (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coffey & Humber Refused | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Toilet Soap, Actress Billie Burke, wife of Impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, testified: "I really am 39 years old!* And I don't see why any woman should look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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