Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient as merchandizing itself, premium promotion still has an unfailing appeal to the something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past...
...Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...
...amused detachment of sages from the moon. To begin with, they wanted to know all about the chicken business. Justice Sutherland was told that in "straight killing" the customer buys the contents of a crate sight unseen. If a customer wants a half crate, "you just break the box in half...
Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
Wall Street is used to soap-box Reds whose favorite place for haranguing the public is the curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...