Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Federal Trade Commission, asking for a showdown, cited three leading sellers of anti-histaminics for false and misleading advertising. The complaints were issued against the Anahist Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. (Anahist) and the Bristol-Myers Co. (Resistab), both of which, under their own trade names, market thonzylamine hydrochloride (also known as Neo-hetramine when prescribed for hay fever). The third complaint was against the Whitehall Pharmacal Co., which sells pyranisamine maleate (Neo-antergan) under the name of Kriptin...
...oddest pets in pet-loving Britain are two electric turtles named Elmer and Elsie. They play around the home of Dr. W. Grey Walter, head of the physiological department of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol. Elmer and Elsie are not exactly alive. Under their shiny steel shells are no flesh & blood, but only mechanical organs. They take no interest in each other, and could not, in any case, reproduce. But wandering around Dr. Walter's house, they act much like real live animals...
Mechanic's Clue. In Bristol, England, George Law recognized an auto stolen from him three years before, despite fake engine and chassis numbers and a new paint job, proved his ownership by pointing out a piece of chewing gum he had once used to patch an oil leak...
Packing the ukulele that a Hawaiian bunkmate had taught him to play, he was off to Constantinople. For the next two years the flotilla plied the Aegean and Black Seas. On every shore leave, Godfrey and his fellow musicians of "Admiral Bristol's Bobo Six" beat out their rhythms in Levantine dives and were paid off in free drinks and applause...
...John Harvey & Sons, makers of Bristol Milk and a better sherry called Bristol Cream, never got around to registering the trademark of their mellow product. Recently, intending to enter the U.S. market on a larger scale, Harvey's finally applied to the British Food Ministry for a registration certificate protecting the Bristol Milk label...