Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University suffered, however, in its relations with non-academic people who considered that Princeton was giving a soap-box to a convicted perjuror capable of "charming and deceiving" gullible undergraduates. This view, unhappily, was supported by the popular press and two Congressmen who had no connection with the University except that they represented New Jersey districts...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...
Sudsy Sagas. CBS made daytime TV drearier than usual by adding two new 30-minute soap operas to its already numbing roster. Like all sudsy sagas, these two have portentous titles (As the World Turns and The Edge of Night), vibrant organ "stings" at emotional moments, and time-consuming dialogue ("Penny, sometimes I don't get you." Penny, after a longish pause: "Sometimes I don't get myself"). Much of the nighttime drama was equally soapy. Robert Montgomery Presents featured Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife...
...production was boosted to the point where Jamaica is now nearly self-sufficient. In trying to encourage manufacturing, the government granted special inducements to foreign capital to build local factories. Island plants now employ some 20,000 and satisfy much of Jamaica's needs for cement, shoes, clothes, soap, paint, canned goods, furniture...
...will continue as chairman. Born in Illinois and educated at Northwestern and Wharton School of Finance, Methodist Elder Lachner knows little about beer. But he is an old hand at selling, was with Colgate-Palmolive for 16 years, where he ended up as vice president of the keenly competitive soap division. Chief reason for the change at Pabst: it slipped from third to fourth place, behind Schlitz, Anheuser-Busch, Ballantine...