Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the shards began to fly last spring Colgate-Palmolive-Peet was innocently turning out "pastillas de Palmolivess" (pronounced Pahl-mo, LEE-vess), the favorite soap of Mexican peasants. At that time Mexican Catholics, alarmed over the missionary activities of Protestant sects, started a new anti-Protestant campaign. Magazines and leaflets labeled Protestants "the advance guard of Yankee Imperialism." Sinarchists burned a Pentecostal church, stoned the members, killed two children. A Methodist convention was bombed with tear gas. Three radio stations refused "protestant" advertising...
...From Paris came one explanation of the frontline shortage of smokes. Three officers and 181 G.I.'s were jailed, accused of selling a trainload of U.S. supplies (cigarets and soap) to French black marketeers. More arrests were expected...
...Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
...climbed on the back of our Trojan buddie Randolph "Pits" Phillips, editorially speaking, but he really isn't the soap-shirker we make him out to be. Oh, did you hear how the Count de Wright got pigeoned into going down for cakes? Oh, well, you can't have your own cake...
...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...