Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...louse feeds on human blood and abhors soap. But where there is no cleansing disturbance the louse flourishes&151;the female easily produces over 100 mature offspring in two months. Typhus epidemics begin when lice suck up typhus germs with the blood of infected human beings, carry the germs to others and infect them. The lice themselves eventually die of the disease they carry&151;after they have spread it among...
There is no known specific medical cure. Preventives include delousing by shaving the body and bathing with creosol soap; sterilizing clothes and bedclothes; vaccination, which may not immunize but usually lessens the severity of attacks and reduces mortality. Best treatment of typhus involves sponge baths, irrigations, a soft high-caloric diet (nasal feeding if a victim is too nauseated to eat), open air if the climate permits...
...depended on the Far East for some 1,600,000,000 Ib. of vegetable fats and oils-to make soap, linoleum, paint, varnish, oleomargarine, shortenings, for many a food and manufacturing process. Pearl Harbor threw all this fat in the fire. At once domestic oils-soybean, cottonseed, linseed-felt the surge of the shifted demand, began to soar in price. OPA clapped on a price ceiling; but last fortnight, to prevent hoarding, OPM had to freeze all U.S. stocks of some 1,800 different fats and oils, domestic and imported. No food, soap or paint manufacturer can now carry more...
German housewives, to make soap, keep greasetraps in their drains, or send children to the woods for beechnuts. U.S. housewives need fear no such shortage, since U.S. fat output can be increased. This week the Department of Agriculture met with State agriculture leaders, begged them to increase 1942 plantings of soybeans and peanuts by 3,000,000-4,000,000 acres (7,000,000 acres of soybeans, 3,500,000 acres of peanuts had already been scheduled for this year). But U.S. oils do not have the rare quick-lathering properties of coconut...
...last year. The muru-muru and tucum trees, also Brazil's, are palm substitutes. Venezuela's jungle-grown corozo and macanilla nuts have the quick-lathering qualities of coconut oil. So has the babassu, of which the U.S. imported 63,000,000 Ib. last year, mostly for soap. In fact, of all imported oils still available to the U.S., Brazil's babassu is now the most important for soap-even in Kansas...