Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State geologists sped to the scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble...
Back of the skilled advertising of Listerine (halitosis, antisepsis) is the Lambert Pharmacal Co., of St. Louis, with Gerard B. Lambert, President. Last week Mr. Lambert made a deal that involved more than $20,000,000 with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Bond & Goodwin, Inc., of Manhattan, who took over the assets of the Lambert Pharmacal Co. In the name of the new company the word "Listerine" may be inserted for its vast trade value. Mr. Lambert will hold control...
What a master stroke if the Lambert Chemical Co. could secure insertion in the New York Times of an advertising display assuring the public that its product, Listerine, is faithfully used (as an after-shaving lotion) by Publisher Adoplh S. Ochs...
...while Lawrence Gomme paid $3,200 for a collection of 5,000 caricatures in 24 folio volumes, including original drawings by Dowland, Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...
...table compilated from the two authorities by the Advertisers' Weekly : CHANGE OVER 1925 1924 Proctor & Gamble $2,691,922 +$1,282,932 Postum Cereal 1,954,915 +680,085 Congoleum 1,836,200 +654,300 Campbell Soup 1,750,280 +231,080 Co.* Lambert Pharmacal 1.577,630 +808,597 Lever Bros 1,139,650 -199,700 Colgate 1,107,458 - 50,987 Jergens, Andrew Co... 949,100 +171,225 Fleischmann 933,085 +429,525 Willys Overland 896,887 + 37,037 Palmolive 895,489 + 37,047 Victor Talking Ma chine Co 864,200 -320,110 Armstrong Cork...