Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory and God tells me what...
...soon as A.F.M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on recordings is resolved. President Woods thinks that war workers and others who cannot listen to the live shows in the evenings should be given a chance to hear them transcribed, that they could also provide the daytime soap operas with the competition they merit...
When the Russians rolled them over, some of the dead Germans were seen to have little colored packets that looked like hotel soap. At first the Russians thought they were some kind of ersatz soap, then they were found to be foods-revolutionary tablet foods so long the favorite of popular science prophets. That was last year...
...January, is a scheme to let every housewife know in cents per pound or package, what she is to pay for every item. Ceilings will be set (and may be published in handy booklets), community by community, first for meat and soap in key cities, later for all groceries in all places, as fast as newly enlarged OPA regional offices can handle them. Some 400,000 retail food outlets will be affected...
...subject (first of a CBS series, Tuesdays, 10-10:30 p.m., E.W.T.) was an English town. A narrator (Joseph Julian, onetime soap-opera star), a cast, and judicious music and sound effects told a simple, effective story. "Troy was a town," said the narrator. "So was Jericho. Lidice was a town. Likewise Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula, later to be known as Los Angeles. And Cromer was a town, and is a town, and you'll find it on a map of the east coast of England, in the district called East Anglia, facing...