Word: kotex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
...dirt in the ... tank or in any of the myriad tubes and lines, and the little research ship would be blown to dust. Two models of the Air Force's X-I . . . had blown up in launching last year . . . The pressurizing gases-helium and nitrogen-were sieved through Kotex . . . That explained why I had seen cartons of the incongruous supplies stacked in the hangar...
Died. Frank J. Sensenbrenner, 87, onetime postal clerk who became president and chairman of the board of the Kimberly-Clark paper manufacturing corporation (first to develop Kleenex, Kotex, and a special ground-wood paper for rotogravure printing); in Neenah...
...only did Albert Davis Lasker make more than $40 million out of advertising, he changed its technique and virtually fathered modern advertising. In so doing he turned such names as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words...