Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large the food was good all along our route, the hotels had plenty of clean towels and hot water (we supplied our own soap), and occasional nursemaids were available for the children, who can stand just so much sightseeing and no more. Our only fiscal misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted...
...Soap Opera. The soap industry's "Big Three"-Lever Bros., Procter & Gamble, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet-were accused by the Federal Trade Commission of unlawful price discrimination against small customers by their rebate system to big buyers. P. & G. admitted that it gave rebates to protect wholesale stocks, whenever it lowered prices. But, said P. & G., it was a practice that had been respected for "many, many years," and once approved...
...field of entertainment, the Voice does an impressive job. It alternates the New York Philharmonic with jam sessions, offers foreign listeners forums, cultural roundups, discussions of U.S. science, literature, ballet, and dramatizations of various aspects of U.S. life (e.g., installment buying). To date, no U.S. comedians or soap operas have been broadcast to overseas listeners...
...William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15?, shave...
...Television was also plunging backward in time. Televiewers of CBS' Film Theater of the Air are currently startled by the sudden insertion of a 60-second commercial. After a hasty, soap-opera-type synopsis of previous action, the film resumes. Jerry Danzig, CBS associate director of programs, explained this reversion to the old nickelodeon technique: "A sponsor won't buy a picture and wait an hour for sponsor identification." He added, ominously: "We're establishing a precedent...