Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have enough in stock, merely take a customer's deposit and bury him in an avalanche of form letters until he tires of trying to retrieve his payment. Some have offered a come-on of ten boxes of Tide detergent for $1.97; what often arrives is an unknown soap brand and an additional unrequested item with a C.O.D. bill...
Armour in promising directions. From bone meal, it has moved strongly into all types of fertilizer. Tentative steps into Pharmaceuticals with pepsin from hog stomachs have led to a line of non-meat products that includes tranquilizers and cosmetics. Excursions into soapmaking to utilize fatty acids produced Dial soap, got Armour so interested in the grocery end that it now even makes pizza pie. Diversified Armour has been reorganized into seven divisions...
...very important that you use a 10? comb," Kweskin says. "The expensive ones are too thick to vibrate well. A lifetime supply of wax paper costs 29?." Geoff Muldaur, 20, plays mandolin, guitar, kazoo and, most rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give it a fatter sound." Mouth-Harpist Mel Lyman, 25, distinguishes between his instrument and the harmonica by saying, "People who play the harmonica are hung...
...Taylor, we've run out of time outs. Go in and get hurt." Even tougher with a buck, Halas has been known to wrestle fans for the football after extra-point plays, and a player on a visiting team once complained that Halas provided only two bars of soap for 36 players. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk " Halas gallantly replied: "What's his address? I'll send him a quart...
...chapters are delightfully imaginative--such as the automation of foreign policy to ensure its continuity or the crusade to eliminate team sports as Communistic and un-American. But the charm of the theme is often lost in its lengthy execution, and the reader finds himself reaching after a soap bubble which has been crushed by a ton of bricks...