Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen years ago Listerine's admen made the U. S. public halitosis-conscious. Since then newspaper and magazine advertising pages have been smeared with warnings of strange afflictions discovered by copywriters. Last week Printers' Ink counted up 93, of which 63 directly concern the human body. Nineteen afflict the skin, 13 concern the oral cavity, eight visit the digestive tract. Counting five bad-breath plagues included in the oral category, twelve have to do with nasty smells...
...priceless asset to Coca-Cola's claims department is Perry Wilbur Fattig. When a customer says he was harmed by something he found swishing around in the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs...
...Last October the company withdrew from the retail gasoline business, sold its service stations. Marketing activities practically ceased, two refineries were shut down. Last week Simms Petroleum sought permission from its stockholders to sell its chief subsidiary and biggest asset, Simms Oil Co., owner of most of the parent concern's oil properties, to Tide Water Oil Co. for $8,775,000 and interest. That left Simms Petroleum with a few wells at Smackover, Ark., refineries at Smackover and Dallas, a few miles of pipe line. Last week President Edward T. Moore wrote his stockholders: "Your Board of Directors...
...action against an undergraduate publication at Harvard is of immediate concern to its brother publications. The Lampoon, the Advocate, and the CRIMSON cover different material in a different way, but they all represent Harvard...
...Concerning the Administration's "social security" program, the former Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, declared that President Roosevelt had entered a field which was reserved to the States. "Old Age pensions, and unemployment insurance is the business of the several states, and it is not the concern of the Federal Government," stated Luce...