Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the proliferation of coin-operated laundries, nine out of ten U.S. housewives still do their wash at home. To brighten, if not lighten, their washday loads, they buy more than $1 billion a year worth of bleaches and bluing agents, starches and softeners, disinfectants and detergents. Now the home laundry market is churning with a new line of stain removers called enzyme pre-soaks. Competition in presoaks has locked two giant soapmakers-Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive-in a classic marketing battle. It has elevated their rival products, P. & G.'s Biz and Colgate's Axion...
...since its introduction in 1947, has been replaced entirely by Tide XK. Eventually, the enzyme-spiked detergents may push almost all regular detergents off the supermarket shelves, even though the enzymes take so much time to soak out stains that they offer relatively modest improvement when added to quick-wash products...
...major private testing services disagree on the effectiveness of presoaks. Consumer Reports concluded that Biz and Axion did little better than regular detergents in removing many stains, but Consumer Bulletin found that the new products "can surely help turn out a brighter, whiter wash." To sift the various claims, the housewife would need the advice of a chemist. In any case, the onslaught of enzymes, by adding still another step-and another product-to the laundry process, makes her washday chores both longer and costlier...
...brought home a potted plant. He placed it on the window sill and gave it a little water. Each afternoon when he came home form work, he watered the plant. Toward the end of August, he removed the plant from the pot and put it in a wash tub. A week later Mirna said...
Scott came to the door. He liked the way Mildred looked, rather soused, and he greeted Nathan warmly. He guided them into the living room and told them that Mirna was fixing bourbon and water since that was all they had. The pumpkin sat in its wash tub in the middle of the room. Nathan and Mildred sat on the couch...