Word: lifebuoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...
...British-Dutch Unilever empire; after long illness; in Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood...
Beyond the Past. This subtle architectonic paradox was no doubt far from the minds of the directors of Lever Brothers Co. (Lux, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent) when they first approached an architect to design their new U.S. headquarters. The persuasive arguments that set the design and the revolutionary innovations of the building that resulted are both characteristic of the architects they chose. In the 16 years since it was founded in a one-room office in. Chicago, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across...