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Today O.M.W. Sprague returns to the Business School, where our youth is taught how to make more money from the family aspirin factory. The government's loss is hardly equalled by the business school's gain, for what many men could do along the Charles, very few are fitted to do in the early days of a new national administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SPRAGUE | 12/1/1933 | See Source »

...Sterling Products, which came from a different sort of family. Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Drug, Disincorporated | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...earnest to achieve the ends which he now so skilfully contemns. After a polite upbringing in Boston, he started out at Harvard in 1912, left to study music at the Paris Conservatoire. After composing a symphony of which he says "It was terrible. . . . Have you got an aspirin?" he met Marie Dressier at a party, regaled her with his musical arrangement of President & Mrs. Harding receiving the children for the annual eggroll on the White House lawn at Easter. Marie Dressier put him on a benefit performance bill. Presently he was appearing at the Bat Club in London where Tallulah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Pays | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...biggest U. S. industrial concerns (1931 earnings: $19,000,000; assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Boots | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

When William Ziff first entered the field Negro papers carried little national advertising except hair-straightener, a few cosmetics, patent medicines. Now the list includes Camel cigarets, Bond Bread. Rumford Baking Powder, Bayer's Aspirin, Blue Ribbon Malt, Gillette Razors, Lifebuoy Soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dark Market | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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