Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other strikes had throttled other supply arteries. There was little salt, window glass, and no milk bottles. The output of soap, rayon, pulp and chemicals was down to a trickle. Without counting steel, the loss to production was staggering. In the first seven months of 1946, strikes cost Canada 2,544.581 man-days (v. 128,208 in the same period of 1945). And some 21,000 workers, in addition to the 11,000 in steel, had been on strike in rubber, mines and in the copper, brass and electrical industries for from ten to 17 weeks. All these major disputes...
Americans will soon have dirty faces and hands to go with their meatless tables. As the slaughtering of livestock declines, so falls the supply of tallow, a basic ingredient of soap. Last week Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest soapmakers, predicted that the soap shortage in the U.S. will soon be worse than during...
...last week there were 40 strikes going on in New York City. One of them had New Yorkers jittery; it threatened to take a major bite out of their food supplies and to cut off their newspapers, cigarets, soap, candy bars and hundreds of the items they purchase daily over store counters. Unless it ended soon, it would throw hundreds of thousands out of jobs...
Jabbing Radio Row has been Henry Morgan's favorite pastime for 14 years. He has lost good jobs and good sponsors by ridiculing commercials, mocking soap operas, burlesquing bigwigs and romping through childish pranks. Philadelphia's WCAU once sacked him when he listed station executives (whom he seldom met) in the missing persons' bureau broadcast. (Says Morgan, gleefully: "It was days before they discovered...
...Always Loved You (Republic) is a pretentious soap opera-with Technicolor and music-made by a studio which normally earns its living making simple, workmanlike horse opera. It will delight Rachmaninoff admirers with repeated fine performances of the Piano Concerto No. 2. It will also please moviegoers who enjoy a good cry when an emotionally rattled heroine makes life miserable for herself and her family...