Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock to read that four million people in our supposedly enlightened society listen to the drivel produced by soap opera [TIME, May 19 ] The characters, the conversation, the overall idiocy of these shows appall me! Are we a nation of dimwits...
...Abner Spraberry's farm. Not until 1948 did Wildcatter Arthur ("Tex") Harvey discover that the "Spraberry Trend," as the formation was named, was full of oil, though imprisoned in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands. Then, the new techniques of the industry came into play: soap & kerosene, pumped into the sandstone under tremendous pressure, loosened it enough to force the oil out. Last week Spraberry was the biggest single U.S. oil-drilling area; about one-fourteenth of the rigs in the country were drilling there, and 1,000 wells have already been completed. New rigs are rising...
Early last month, while taking his exercise, Ferre snitched the key to his cell and made a soap impression of it. A little later he rambled over to McKinley's Hardware Store and lifted a couple of files and a metal saw. Working at leisure, he made himself a cell key from a piece of metal bed slat and, thus equipped, went back into the burglary business...
Although the committee hasn't decided yet what the profits will go for, the only real expense will be for soap. The University will not charge it for use of water or electricity...
Only Expense is Soap...