Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Milquetoasts. The President was magnanimous in his moment of victory. In canceling their price increases, he said, the steel companies "are serving the public interest, and their actions will assist our common objectives of strengthening our country and our economy." But Ad ministration insiders let it be known that the Justice Department was not calling off the grand jury investigation - even though Inland's decision to refrain from raising prices, and the swift collapse of the U.S. Steel camp, would appear to demolish any argument that U.S. Steel wields monopolistic power to set prices...
Bullets & Combs. Oliver Treyz (rhymes with preys), a math major (Hamilton College), a statistical control officer in the Army, a network and ad-agency research man, was admittedly no creator...
...queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix. Some time in the next two years he began to plan his appointment in Samarra. He scanned the classified ads in the Phoenix papers looking for one "will-do-anything" kind of situation-wanted ad. At least five unemployed men were approached by Resnick, and all refused to kill him. One reported his strange interview to the police but was unable to identify Resnick, and the matter was forgotten in the crackpot...
...Nazi regime, in fact, was the ad absurdum of this history. The seven years of its success (1933-), however, are not merely a tribute to the logic of history, or--as has been more widely supposed--to the power-mania of Adolf Hitler...
Saul Bass works in an old stucco house on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. He quit his job at an ad agency to set up his own shop there in 1955. Madison Avenue advertising agencies now study Saul Bass film credits in search of new techniques for TV commercials. At 41, Bass is easily the highest-priced man in his field. He is also the creator of the new color-drop Kleenex box and the new, wasp-waisted Wesson Oil bottle. He never repeats him self. "If you don't risk everything every time out." he says, "your creative...