Word: baths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indications are that William Levitt is getting a bargain and ITT is taking a bath. ITT bought the business for common stock then worth about $90 Billion: most of it went to Levitt as majority owner. The terms of his repurchase will not be disclosed until federal trustbusters approve them, but trade estimates are that he will pay ITT no more than $30 million, and possibly as little as $10 million, to get the company back, And he will be getting back a much bigger company than he sold. Levitt & Sons was a leader in its field when ITT bought...
...romance into your bath by sharing the water," reads the ad. "You would be amazed how much gas you save." Appearing in English newspapers, the promotion is part of a fuel-conservation drive by a government-owned gas board-and it has provided gloomy, energy-short Britons with a diverting tempest in a bathtub...
...moved the London tabloid, the Sun, to run a photo of a buxom model and her husband baring almost all in watery togetherness. It also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called...
What if your partner really needs a bath? The wife of a coal-truck driver said that bathing with her husband was carrying patriotism too far. If she did, she said, she would step out of the tub with a black ring around each...
Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...