Word: washing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washes for One Head. McElroy came up through the advertising route, but he bore no resemblance to the caricatured three-martini sincere-tie adman of Madison Avenue legend. In Procter & Gamble's tight check-and-balance organization, advertising was something of a science, tied closely to research and development, production and marketing. P. & G. advertising knew almost to the ounce how much soap each of its bubble-bathos radio programs could be credited with selling. P. & G. advertising still does the weekly wash free for 100 Cincinnati housewives, checks them closely as to their likes and dislikes...
...over the U.S., homemade rockets are fizzing, exploding and-on rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...
WILLIAM H. LEES Winslow, Wash...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Sen. Jackson (D-Wash.) said today "the American people would be dismayed and bewildered" if they knew how few missile-equipped, nuclear-powered submarines the Defense Department's present plans call...
Hell broke loose in Pasco, Wash., spread through the Episcopal District of Spokane, and gave the bishop something to worry about...