Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Harry Sinclair has his "soap" (his favorite word for cash in the bank), Standard thus has lost in both pride and purse. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, it looks as if the British-whose original stake in Mexico (mainly Shell's) was estimated at more than that of the U.S.-may get back into booming Mexico. While the British Foreign Office still maintains a correct and haughty silence about the principles of expropriation, the oil industry is buzzing with rumors that British oil companies may make a realistic new deal to go in and operate their former...
...caused by explosions, was announced this week by the Navy Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with soap, does not interfere with finger action, protects against a heat flash of over 1,800° F. The formula is secret...
...nosed Tom Girdler, at 66, has one possession of which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler's, but because they are shared...
...Pick your soap for its lathering qualities, not its smell-nobody is going to worry about your B.O. until you get back to the States...
...moral fact. The plot suggests eternal division, the manner reconciliation; the plot speaks of clear certainties, the manner resolutely insists that nothing can be quite so simple. 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs, 'If you can find the soap...