Word: jello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
Jack Benny is currently the world's highest-paid entertainer. He receives approximately $7,500 a week for his Jello broadcasts, $100,000 from M-G-M for each of his pictures. Last year NBC gave him a gold medal as No. 1 star of the air. This year his real popularity (as well as the ludicrous exaggerations of radio publicists) is exemplified by the claim that his following...
...Nelson Film, Ltd., Vandor Film). The wild mountain land above the French Riviera and Paris and London studios more than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French...
...Board, some significance was attached to the fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton...