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Word: billhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...billhead meant what it said. Francis X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, the young tennists whose teamwork was the talk of two continents in 1931 when they reached the semi-finals of the U. S. and Wimbledon Doubles Championships, had teamed up again, in the laundry business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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