Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...
...like to see Mr. Strachey† queue-in' and scrapin' for every bit of fat and soap. It's the women wot 'ave the 'ard time these days...
...successful soap-opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...
...Hoople) on The Rexall Summer (Theater. In a sudsy serial, Bob and Victoria, he oozed kindly wisdom persuasively enough to insure himself a berth on that show for some years to come. "My radio family," he explained cheerfully, "is so longevious that at this rate I should be in soap opera for 30 years...
...Teachers talk about proper eating habits and cleanliness in the classrooms," he declares, "but when lunch bell rings. The fastidious lad who tries to wash his hands finds no soap or towels in a filthy little washroom, and there is barely time to bolt his food down even if he makes a track start at the door...