Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the land from which we came, and we showed them the pictures and tried to explain them. In return they gave us the information we needed. ... As a parting gift we left several items which they had esteemed highly; namely, a pair of blue jeans, two bars of soap, and the battered copy of TIME...
...worth of equipment & supplies-about everything in God's world: 21,000 boxcars, 91,000 bazookas, 1,270,000 microphones. 9,000,000 gas masks, 17,000,000 neckties, 21,000,000 rifle grenades, 36,000,000 pairs of goggles, 52,000,000 lb. of soap, 98,000,000 lb. of chemical-warfare defensive agents, 13,500,000,000 rounds of .30-and .50-caliber ammunition, 109,200.000 rolls of gauze bandage, 617,000,000 tablets of sulfadiazine, 20,000 75-mm. tank guns...
...Soap operaddicts are, among other things, considerably less likely to vote than nonaddicts...
...large proportion of soap operaddicts take the serials seriously, try to apply what they hear in them to their own lives...
...Most soap-opera characters are about midway in the U.S. social scale, almost never include factory workers, miners, skilled or unskilled laborers...