Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
...they encompass. It would be difficult for a student to make a purchase without some fraction of his money finding its way back, eventually, to 24 Milk Street. If he buys gasoline, whether Shell, Gulf, Standard, or Sinclair, he is contributing to Harvard dividends. Every time he buys Ivory Soap, Diamond Matches, Carnation Milk, Kodak Film, or Gillette Razor Blades, Harvard gets more money. He can hardly buy a drink without adding a trickle to a stream of dividends that totaled $6,665,149 last year. In what Claflin calls the "highly profitable distilleries," University holdings include Ruppert, Hiram Walker...
...gladly come with towels and soap...
Irma was on the air for 20 weeks before a sponsor finally took it over. The wait was worth it: the sponsor, Lever Bros, (soap) is one of the biggest spenders in radio, and the time assigned to Irma, between Lever Bros.' big-time Lux Radio Theater and the only slightly less popular Screen Guild Players, is the second best in radio (the best: the expensive Sunday night half-hour between Jack Benny and Charlie McCarthy on NBC, now occupied by Alice Faye and Phil Harris...
...home in bed with a cold, to "My darling Mumkin and Pap: Good morning I hope you have used Pear's Soap and are flourishing now . . . you will be horrified to hear that my temperature is 150°-But really I have got a 'petit rhume' only...