Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...weeks in which the prosecution presented its case, they had little difficulty in digging up daily accounts of glittering vice, café-society style (TIME, Feb. 23). In its final week (after reporters had been admitted to the court), the trial took on the throbbing dramatic tones of a soap opera. Mickey's Social Registered mother, stately Mrs. Ralph Teal, unhappily admitted that a number of her son's sinful friends had been guests in her home, and that she had finally asked Mickey to stop bringing Pat Ward home with him. Despite her dislike for Pat, however...
...Snorkel-equipped, but with its periscope accidentally shattered, U-977 stayed submerged-and moved blind-for a record 66 days. Each of the two engines broke down in turn and had to be repaired. Diesel fumes and smoke choked the crew. The bulkheads dripped with green mold. Short of soap and wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much a pleasure...
Every housewife knows that synthetic detergents have cut into the market for old-style soaps made out of animal fats. Last week the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers revealed how big the inroads have been. In five years soap production has dropped nearly 40% - from 3.7 billion Ibs. a year to 2.3 billion Ibs. In the same period, detergent production rose 350% from 400 million lbs. to 1.8 billion...
...makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect on the skin. She altered her titles to conform, but feared the FTC less than her archrival Elizabeth Arden, who paid $50,000 a year to hire away Rubinstein's general manaager. Rubinstein got revenge by hiring Arden's ex-husband to take...