Word: alka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap-courtesy of Lux, Pepsodent, Alka-Seltzer, etc. But war put the commercial "outlaws" out of business-precariously situated Luxembourg for reasons of neutrality, Normandie and other French stations for la belle propaganda. This left blacked-out Britishers wholly at the mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone recordings, funereal discourses like...
...Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese. For a Sunday hour, Luxembourg had recently been charging $2,500, the highest single-station rate in the world...
...Alka and Bromo have had plenty time to sooth your troubled brow. Awake and rejoice, another weekend is at hand. Hallowe'en and the Princeton aftermath fall on the same...
...Alka-Seltzer's A. H. Beardsley worried about cut-rate drugstores, said he circumvented them by selling his medicine only on consignment for sale at his own price...