Word: soaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After lunch Charles Luckman gave a personal demonstration of his thesis. Eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...
Inside Information. In Charleston. S.C., Mannie Griffin, suspected of theft, yielded up the evidence-a $20 bill and two $1's - when police made him drink a solution of warm water and soap...
...past, prices had been held down by a combination of price fixing and subsidies. Bread was price fixed, so were cooking oils and fats, milk, soap and, in Buenos Aires, meat. But to entice these products into the open market, the government repeatedly had to increase its subsidies to the producers...
Last week without warning, almost casually, the council canceled the subsidies on cooking oil, soap, milk and beef for the capital. Porteños whispered that the President himself had appeared before the council to ask for the step. The rumor ran that soon all subsidies, even the whopping annual support for wheat and sugar, would be lifted...
Director Mervyn LeRoy has tried halfheartedly to keep the suds from showing, but soap opera, like murder, will...