Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...
Wetting agents now touch upon almost every aspect of life from obstetrics, where they are used as germicides, to undertaking, where they make embalming fluids more penetrating. Synthetic detergents-non-soaps with the cleansing properties of soaps-were first produced in the laboratory by the Frenchmen Dumas and Peligot in 1836. They began their concoctions with fatty alcohols extracted from whale oil, but the product was too costly to compete with that age-old detergent, soap. During World War I, when fats for soapmaking were scarce, German chemists again tried in earnest to concoct soapless soaps. Real success...
...cleaning, where they increase the power of solvents, and in laundering, where they sometimes replace soap...
Compared with soap, wetting agents have three advantages: they will work 1) in the presence of acids, 2) in hard water, 3) in cold water. Many a U.S. woman has long been washing her clothes, hair and teeth with these soapless soaps-e.g., Procter & Gamble's "Dreft," "Drene," etc., and Colgate's similar line, whose unusual chemistry has not been emphasized in their makers' advertising. Chemists are trying to put a soapless detergent into cake form. When they succeed, as they may any day now, its advantages-notably in the vast U.S. hard-water zones-will...
Died. Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 59, chairman of the giant Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd. (Sunlight soap in Britain, Lux in the U.S.); in Reigate, England. He succeeded to the chairmanship after the death of Lord Leverhulme...