Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected, prices increased overnight on scarce materials and products being made at a loss. Procter & Gamble, and other soapmakers, jacked up wholesale soap prices an average of 50%. General Electric and Westinghouse led the way in upping small motors, refrigerators, washers, ironers, etc., from 10% to 60%. Zinc, copper, lead, and tin also zoomed. In the first two days of free trading, the prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped...
...they reduced the telephone exchange (servicing 4,000 lines) to a pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families of 3,000 workers of their livelihood...
...schoolrooms throughout the U.S. last week, youngsters redecorated empty cigar boxes with U.S. flags and paste-ups from magazines, stuffed them with school supplies, sewing kits, warm socks and mittens, soap, toothbrushes, yo-yos. They were "Friendship Boxes," wrapped as gifts to the children of Europe and Asia from the children of the U.S. Every parcel included a letter from the sender, and some writing paper and a self-addressed envelope...
...quickest possible comprehensive recommendation" for relief from shortages in sugar, soap, fats, oils and foods...
...archaic bookshop, one of the merchants explained, "one of our clients is always finding something valuable. As long as order is maintained, you're always welcome to come in and browse around." Maybe you'll pick yourself up something old and rare-like a bar of soap...