Word: bil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultra Violet campaign is the costliest that Revlon has ever launched, may swell the company's 1946 advertising bil to over $3 million. What Revlon expects in return, like all other figures in the industry, is a closely guarded secret. But largely on the sale of dollar lipsticks and 60? nail polishes which cost the makers about 10? to manufacture, Revlon this year will gross "well into the eight-figure bracket...
January 21 was partially overcast and we were southeast of Formosa. On the Essex we were eating noon chow. At 12:09 the 5-inch guns opened up, and the bell clanged for general quarters. Everybody rushed topside. The Ticonderoga was bil lowing black smoke 300 feet high. Seven planes had sneaked through. Six were shot down but the seventh crashed through the Ti's flight deck. She was badly...
...billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...
Graduation, transfers, and greetings from the President have bil the team, but without disastrous effect. The chief losses include Wally Chubb, quartermiler. who graduated last month, and John Kent, half-miler, who is now in boot training...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...