Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocky stretches ripped tires and shattered windshields. By the time the cars reached Brisbane, the first seven places were held by sturdy little Volkswagens. Well up in the running, though, was Mrs. Doris Isabel ("Geordie") Anderson, 46, a Brisbane housewife and mother of six, who was driving her own brand-new, cream and grey Mark VIII Jaguar-a $6,750 job complete with automatic transmission...
...Using "all facilities of the law," notably appeals to the Justice Department under the brand-new civil rights measure, to prevent interference with Negro registration and voting...
...decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola) to Florida's Senator George A. Smathers of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, accusing Columbia Records' bearded pop A & R chief Mitch Miller of self-confessed payolatizing...
Arrivals in Prague, capital of Communist Czechoslovakia, via KLM Flight 650 from Mexico City to Montreal, Shannon and Amsterdam: one man, one woman and one boy, bearing brand-new passports and making like brand-new citizens of the Republic of Paraguay. Their credentials...
...cigarette industry has long fought the battle of the public's health from "Not a cough in a carload," to "Significantly less tars and nicotine than any other filter brand." Last week nervous food men wondered if their time had come. A battle of the ads had started over unsaturated v. saturated fats* and their connection, if any, with the amount of cholesterol in the human bloodstream and the prevalence of heart attacks. Though nutritionists and the American Heart Association itself (see MEDICINE) consider a cause-and-effect relationship between fats and heart disease far from proved, scientific doubts...