Word: soapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey was correct, the network undoubtedly had a case for its soapless policy. If not, it had at least made history by publishing a survey which did not try to prove that it was the best network in existence...
...Liquid soapless shampoo is gentler and more effective than ordinary soap for washing fuel oil from shipwrecked men, is now included in first-aid kits on many U.S. ships...
...discovery was accidental. Dr. Robertson and his colleagues were trying out another possible germicide-a detergent or "soapless soap" (similar to Dreft, Aerosol and other products widely sold for household and industrial use). Water solutions of the detergent were only mildly effective, so the researchers tried solutions of detergents in propylene glycol, which is a sort of thin glycerine. Results were much better. Then the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would-within a few seconds-kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci...
...antiseptic soaps are not true soaps made of fat and lye but the recent "soapless soaps" (TIME, Jan. 5). The most powerful disinfectants among them are complicated organic compounds based on ammonium. Their use in softening, cleansing and disinfection is due to a positive charge on the organic part of the molecule. It is strongly attracted by protein, thus apparently seizes on the proteins of bacteria. By the only known test the bacteria are dead, i.e., they no longer increase and multiply bacteria...
...Valko and Mr. DuBois "revived" them: They used other soapless soaps, based on sulfuric acid, in which the active part of the molecule is negative. The positive and negative charges of the two soaps neutralized each other and the bacteria, thus freed of the soapy narcosis, went on with their life (i.e., propagated...