Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire output. For Author Pérez Galdós is bold enough to use the fine old materials of fiction as if he had just discovered them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing to pay. Even Polo, the unfrocked priest, is seen as a man whose 'whole nature is out of tune with his mistaken calling, a personality so split that...
Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...
Wool Washer. A cold water British soap for woolens ("Woolite") which minimizes shrinking was put on sale in the U.S. by Honey Harbour Co. Ltd., Washington, Conn. Price...
Post exchanges, begun as a wartime convenience to provide tax-free soap, razorblades, cigarettes, etc. to servicemen, have proliferated into huge discount houses selling everything from lingerie and jewelry to Laundromats and power lawnmowers. Boxmaking, begun as a convenience in small shops at Army posts, has grown into a Government industry that boxmakers estimate is now making 10% to 15% of all U.S. box production. In Philadelphia, four Government box plants compete with eight private companies...
PROCTER & Gamble, which has far outdistanced rival Colgate-Palm-olive-Peet in both soap and detergent sales, is now getting ready to challenge Colgate in its specialty: toothpaste. Already on sale in nine states, P. & G.'s new "Gleem" dentifrice will get national distribution next year...