Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have customers, but a clientele, he repeated, and explained the friendly atmosphere that had been built up in the store, especially during the war. "We acted as Navy Store-PN to the servicemen around Harvard, and even got special permission from the Navy to obtain scarce items like soap and cigarettes. As a result, we're still getting postcards from Hawaii and Guam and places all over the world. It's an international reputation we enjoy...
...TIME have its editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada...
Zerbe, 43, never liked the paint that comes from tubes. Since his student days at Frankfurt (where he studied chemistry), he had tried all the usual mediums, as well as egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap and Duco automobile enamel. Zerbe got around to encaustic six years ago. He liked its fast-drying, refulgent surface. In 1934 Zerbe moved to the U.S.-out of Hitler's way. The Boston Museum school of art made him a teacher...
Federal Reserve. In East Weymouth, Mass., Samuel Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, found each stamped: 'Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...
...Score. In Decatur, ΙΙΙ., an obliging husband stayed home to help his wife; in two days, spent mainly in queues, he garnered two boxes of soap chips...