Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeding only itself and maybe some Koreans. Besides, it already had large surpluses in the cupboard (see BUSINESS). Sugar hoarding was unnecessary and foolish. Barring the kind of panic buying that brings on the controls that nobody wants, there should be enough meat and other foods, gasoline, sheets, soap, cooking fats, men's shirts, nylons, cigarettes, liquor, and women's & children's clothing. (Apparel wool for men's suits is not so plentiful, but probably adequate...
...whole nation had the air of a man waiting. The economy twitched a little, nervously. With reflexes conditioned by World War II, consumers started a rush on cars, tires, nylons, washing machines and refrigerators, soap and even toilet paper. (A Chillicothe, Mo. man wrote his grocer: "Give me 100 pounds of sugar before those hoarders...
...pinch of bicarbonate of soda brings a good, foamy head to a glass of beer; dry ice makes coffee or tea appear to steam and causes pretty suds in a pail of soap powder solution...
This week, to show its listeners what they were missing, and how glad they should be, WNEW was punctuating its station breaks with burlesque versions of soap operas and crime thrillers. Sample: "And now . . .Chapter 2025 of Barbara Babbitt, Girl Ranger. Yesterday, you'll recall, we left Barbara pleading with the district attorney for the life of Cuddles, her Oriental leopard. Meanwhile,unknown to either Barbara or Cuddles, Wambly Townsend, the handsome young accountant, is at this very moment flying to the state capital to ask. . . for a reprieve. Will Wambly Townsend succeed in his desperate race against time...
Died. Samuel Simeon Fels, 90, president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...