Word: bub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, not only Kresge's but Woolworth's and scores of other dime and department stores were selling thousands of 29? and 49? packets, consisting of a pipe and a collapsible tube filled with a plastic called "Bub-O-Loon." In thousands of homes, offices and nightclubs, Americans were huffing & puffing into their hollow sticks...
Ballooning Profits. Fox & friends gambled $175,000 and borrowed more from banks to manufacture and market Bub-O-Loon. He took in two partners, who got together a company to work out the tricky process of putting the plastic into the tubes, and lined up nine plants in seven cities to turn out the tubes...
From an initial production of 14,000 tubes a day, Bub-O-Loon production last week had expanded to 400,000 tubes daily. The company was already grossing $100,000 a day. As the Vinylite plastic (purchased in bulk from Bakelite Corp.) cost only 14? per 49? tube, a large part of the gross was profit. There was only one hole in the bubble. The formula for turning vinyl plastic into Bub-O-Loon was so simple that Fox did not think it could be patented. Already competitors were turning out more than 100,000 tubes a day. When...
...asked. The farmer looked down at . . . the President, spat a pint or so of tobacco juice past the car, and motioned. 'Down there, about a quarter of a mile.' 'Thank you,' said the Boss. The farmer grunted without turning, 'That's all right, Bub...
...Delaware who has served his Party for 15 years in many high positions, sat below the press box, glumly chewing a cigar, glumly watching the new party bigwigs, Dewey, Warren, Saltonstall, Dwight Griswold, et al. A young blond usherette, with a pageboy bob, strode up to him, said: "Hey, bub, you can't sit here!" Glumly he wandered off, looking for a friendly face, for a Republican who remembered...