Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always disrupts business, sold stocks in such a frenzy that the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 17.63 points in four days. But in retail and wholesale markets, the cry was "Buy!" With memories of World War II shortages still fresh, housewives stampeded the nylon counters, grabbed for sheets, towels, soap, sugar, and everything else that had been short only a few years ago. In cities like Dallas and San Francisco, department store sales rose more than 40% over...
...aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon...
...Washington, Rear Admiral Arthur C. Davis, Staff Director for the Joint Chiefs, was back on the job after recovering from an acute eye infection. "There I was-unable to use my eyes," he said. "I just listened to the radio all day. Soap operas! I never heard one before . . . What are we doing? We are raising a generation of morons. My God, I didn't realize what sad shape the United States of America...
...Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless and coarse...
Police said they had questioned the suspects, whose names, were not available, for an hour and then released them because they carried no stolen articles--they had only a bag full of soap which they had claimed was their lunch...