Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOAPMAKERS are working themselves into a new competitive lather. Their latest product: all-detergent soap bars. Procter & Gamble's "Zest" is already being test-marketed, as is Colgate's "Charmis"; Lever Bros, is reported to be rushing a detergent bar of its own into production. The big ad froth will come next year...
...teau at Saint-Félix. On this, along with whatever can be garnered from the château gardens, his family and retainers must suffice. And so the baron's astonishment rose as bills came rolling in for sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been robbed! Our jewels and silver are missing!" It did not take the Baron de Roquette-Buisson long to unmask the culprit. Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled...
...obtain a visa, an applicant must list this associations for the last fifteen years, often explain his political views and detail his opinions on issued like Korea. The answers are often unacceptable to the U.S. Security officers, but any softening of personal beliefs whether by way of soft soap or of an honest attempt to state his beliefs fully is considered perjury...
Others of the Red returnees had ripped their new clothing, slashed tarpaulins on trucks, refused to eat, thrown away soap, cigarettes and toothpaste wrapped in Red propaganda. But on the train a group of Chinese behaved well and even thanked the U.S. car commander for kind treatment. At Panmunjom the delivery was orderly, as the Communist prisoners vanished from the free world...
...Juan Duarte's luck to be the brother of a frail, high-voltage blonde named Evita, who married Juan Peron and became the most powerful woman of her time. In 1946, at Evita's suggestion, Soap Salesman Juan became Peron's No. 1 secretary. Though he liked to hit the nightclubs of Buenos Aires with an endless chain of slick señoritas, Bachelor Duarte never became much of a public figure. But over the years, he prospered wondrously. Rigged deals on the stock exchange, a cut on imported cars and machinery, black-market operations in meat...