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Spick & Span. The U.S. Army has almost stopped buying soap. It has more than enough for its needs, plans to sell the surplus. Among items up for disposal: 19,851,000 cakes of toilet soap; 1,345,000 Ibs. of soap chips; 1,588,000 tubes of shaving cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Next morning I brought my baggage to the hotel. A character said: "Baggage, sir," and he picked up my duffel bag and musette and carried things for me for a change, after 40 months of my carrying everything from toilet paper to bedrolls for my "superior" officers. It certainly was wonderful. Now for civilian clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The First 24 Hours | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Rolling Along. In Grants Pass, Ore., a taxi company celebrated the opening of a new office by giving away free rolls of hard-to-get toilet paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Then I was taken to Ofuna. Every day was the same. I got slugged in the jaw about every day, mostly for not being polite. To get to the toilet you had to ask the guard's permission politely, then thank him politely for the favor when you came back. If you were having dysentery, as most of us did at times, it meant a hell of a lot of politeness day & night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back from the Grave | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...paintings: three Monets-River Scene on the Seine "with Barges, Rustic Landscape, Monceau Park; two Sisleys-Seine at Argenteuil, Thames at Hampton Court; Renoir's Woman at her Toilet; Degas' Seated Nude Brushing her Hair; Cezanne's Mont Victoire; Van Gogh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: French Find | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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