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Word: toilets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonanza for many other industries. Retail counters are full of chlorophyll products that promise to banish halitosis and B.O. and help heal cuts. On the market are twenty-nine different brands of deodorizing lozenges and tablets, seven brands of chewing gum, four brands of mouthwash, one chlorophyll-impregnated toilet paper, and a cigarette with chlorophyll to take away a smoker's "bad breath" even while he is smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Green Gold | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...blue, highlighted with American colonial scenes, and have drawing rooms with folding partitions that can be expanded into big (16½-ft.-long) conference rooms. The coffee-shop cars serve counter meals from electronic Radaranges, which cook food in less than a minute. Other features: cocktail bars and yellow toilet bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...snatch a brief rest during the remainder of the day is likely to end in disappointment due to the parade of the VIPs, who so space their visits that there is never an idle moment: the baby, the nurse, the nurse's aid, the room duster, the toilet polisher, the floor mopper and the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rest? Guess Again | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...took his morning gallop around the Yard on horseback, there was neither plumbing nor central heating in Matthews. Matthews men hauled big wooden tubs out to the Yard pump at six a.m., filled them with water, dragged them back to the basement of the Hall, and took their baths. Toilet facilities consisted of a large pit, also in the basement. Needless to say, living conditions were severe, especially when the "Med. Fac." blew up the Yard pump...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Matthews Hall | 2/12/1952 | See Source »

...rate deal on Chen Yu (nail polish and lipstick), and paid $1,000,000 for Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan's Liniment and the DuBarry Success Schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Life Begins at 60 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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