Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen a gathering together of Christian leaders on a greater scale than the world has yet seen . . . But the abiding significance of Amsterdam lies in this; that it is to inaugurate a Council of Churches which, please God, will continue, and will continuously draw together into fuller understanding and cooperation the divided groupings of the servants of Christ in the world...
...Named by her mother, who had been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the U.S. later, W.C.T.U. President Frances Elizabeth Willard persuaded Eva Booth to assume the fuller, more formal name Evangeline...
...original Fuller Brush man is kindly, dignified Arthur C. Fuller, 62, who parlayed a basement shop in Somerville, Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his brushes, he got his first salesmen. He has taken a paternal interest in them ever since; all his district managers are former salesmen. When son Howard left college (Harvard and Duke), he peddled brushes for a year to learn the business...
...Boss. Howard Fuller, able salesman and yachtsman (his cutter Gesture won the Bermuda race two years ago), became president in 1943, when Arthur Fuller upped himself to chairman. The new president took over a business which had cut its normal civilian output drastically to make brushes for the cleaning of guns. To meet the demand he made the company tops in the field of brush-making machinery, developed new brushes for industrial uses. He also began to use girls to reinforce his war-depleted sales staff. The experiment was only partly successful; lugging a sample case with 36 different brushes...
...When Fuller took over the house-to-house agency for Daggett & Ramsdell, Inc.'s Débutante Cosmetics this year, he decided to give girls another try. If housewives take to Fullerettes and their cosmetics as they have to brush men, Fuller hopes to have 4,000 of them out by Christmas, add another several million dollars a year to his sales...