Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets a deep flesh cut from a jagged instrument, the doctor usually washes out the wound with soap & water, cuts away dead tissue, and stitches up the wound. He may put a mild antiseptic on the surrounding skin. He would never think of cauterizing such a wound with fuming nitric acid and then leaving it open. But if the patient in such a case is the victim of a dogbite, he is all too likely to be subjected to painful cautery, and perhaps scarred for life...
...only thing that makes a dogbite (or the bites of other animals*) different from an ordinary wound, says Dr. Vinnard, is the possible presence of rabies virus. It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap & water than by nitric acid or any other of the cauterizing agents. As for leaving the wound open, this increases the chance of disfigurement...
...stockholders, Procter & Gamble Board Chairman Richard R. Deupree last week preached a short sermon on U.S. industrial efficiency. Said he: "With wages and taxes equivalent to 40 times the wages and taxes of 66 years ago, with raw material prices three times what they were, a cake of soap [Ivory] that cost 5? in 1885 costs less than 10? today. That's a solid contribution to the American standard of living...
...banned for criticizing the soap opera mania...
Mostly, Webster pictures the radio & TV audience at its moments of greatest strain: clubbed senseless by commercials, drowned in the soap-opera flood, lacerated by thrillers, held slack-jawed and limp before the endless, banal assault on ear and eye and mind. When his characters are caught with their sets off, they exhibit every nuance of the Walter Mitty syndrome: grandmothers speak to one another with the accents of private eyes; moppets dry-gulch their parents from behind the furniture; housewives confront "their startled husbands with all the teary grandeur of John's Other Wife...