Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Day. In Washington, the Alien Property Custodian announced that he would dispose of a patent for soap guaranteed to leave the bathtub ringless...
Spick & Span. The U.S. Army has almost stopped buying soap. It has more than enough for its needs, plans to sell the surplus. Among items up for disposal: 19,851,000 cakes of toilet soap; 1,345,000 Ibs. of soap chips; 1,588,000 tubes of shaving cream...
...cosmetics, ranging from perfumes to bubble baths. In the nation's stores, bashful men fingered flashy bureau and bath sets, shaped like whiskey bottles, perfume bottles sporting horsehead corks, pictures of big game. One Midwest manufacturer crowed over a solid gold shaving bowl worth $1,875, without the soap. ("Boy, that's luxury...
Chicago: Who bought solid gold shaving bowl selling at $1875 plus tax, minus soap...
...public opinion, Congress found little guidance. The nation was in no mood to think hard & straight on another burning issue, or even to hear about it. Although peacetime conscription might forever change the pattern of U.S. life and the size of its national budgets, few citizens jumped on soap boxes or raised angry voices at bars. Congress' mail came chiefly from those organized groups whose opposition had already been discounted: churchmen, educators, labor leaders...