Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former G.I.s who can't get into a jerkwater college because they cannot find a place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee only gets madder. It takes an act more of plotboiling to get the boys safely enrolled...
...just what was the U.S. getting? Fine service, said the Commission-from a few leaders in each field. But from the rank & file, deplorable performance. The movies were out to entertain, and nothing else; the radio was out to sell soup, soap & cereals, period; the press was out for scoops and sensations...
...long as effective free speech in radio depends on the whims and political prejudices of soap manufacturers, the most influential media for influencing public opinion can be as rigidly controlled as a state radio monopoly. And at a time when America's moral position throughout the world is to rest on a defense of civil liberties, shortsighted actions of the type involving Shirer cannot be designed to strengthen that position...
...certainly none to spare. The tourist compensates for his food consumption by his usually large outlay, but the student, travelling on restricted means is in no position to recompense the country in such a fashion, and though the black market is now pretty well minimized, a sudden influx of soap-laden pseudo-students might well start it off again on its illegitimate...
...having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...