Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radioactive contamination from an air burst will be in the central area; few can escape. But heavy rain, strong wind, or an underwater burst may spread radioactive matter to areas with many survivors. They should get out of their clothes as soon as possible and wash themselves with soap, or better, the "soapless" detergents now in most U.S. kitchens.* Lacking water or soap, vigorous rubbing of the skin with uncontaminated paper or cloth will help...
...Philadelphia, the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Protestant Radio Commission, demanded more religious broadcasts: "We will not bow before the demands that soap and cigarettes be first in people's thinking . . . Religion is not a hobby with the American people, nor is it a hunger felt only...
...easy since his departure from Lever Bros. (TIME, Jan. 30), went back to work last week. Still young (41) and ambitious, Chuck Luckman and Los Angeles Architect William Pereira formed a 50-50 partnership. Luckman graduated (University of Illinois '31) as an architect, though he went into the soap business shortly afterward; Pereira is an old friend and college classmate. The firm, specializing in commercial and institutional structures, has $25 million in business on hand...
Britain's National Health Service, which costs the British taxpayer $650 million a year, supplies free medicine, also free false teeth, wigs, spectacles, glass eyes, wooden legs and hearing aids. Last week it announced that it would draw the line at bath salts, vanishing cream, shaving soap, toothpaste, hair tonic and anti-mosquito lotions. However, a spokesman admitted, there are borderline cases: "A man with an itch, it might be argued, needs medicated soap...
...Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime collapsed...