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Word: soaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Books, clothes and soap for the Free University of Berlin are being collectedly the National Student Association in all Radcliffe, dormitories and in Agassiz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collection To Aid Free University in Berlin Via N. S. A. | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

From this office a full-time staff will synchronize NSA's four main projects: a tri-nation tour administered by the Radcliffe chapter of NSA, foreign student hospitality promotion, a soap, clothes, book drive to help staff the Free University of Berlin, and the channelling of student purchasing powers within the Boston area to obtain cheaper student rates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional NSA Mobilizes for Projects of Coming Season | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...Soap opera, which whips up its lather with crocodile tears, is replaced by readings of continued stories that stress humor and happiness in U.S. home life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fresh Country Air | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Soap opera has entered a gubernatorial campaign for the first time. Paul A. Dever, Governor Robert F. Bradford's opponent in the Massachusetts fight, has sent sirupy attacks by radio housewives out on the air waves during the past few weeks in technology's latest contribution to American politics. The ladies have chatted mainly about the high cost of living, criticizing Governor Bradford for allowing price hikes on 400 necessities of life. On billboards and in Dever's own oratory, prices have been the central issue. But the Governor is against the veteran," one lady said recently. She went...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Campaign V. Bradford vs. Dever | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...Chester Novak, an arthritis-ridden Milwaukee invalid, traded a 3-? bottle of liniment for a bar of soap, the soap for a pound of butter and the butter for a case of pop. By judicious barter he finally parlayed the pop into $65 worth of miscellaneous goods, hoped finally to end up with a television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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