Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exotic Sale. A poodle went for $175; a pony given by Tennessee Ernie Ford netted $345. Most exotic item was a set of lavender sheets smeared with lipstick, which (the Cliff Hotel swore) had been used by Kim Novak. The sheets were bought by a tie manufacturer for $200, converted into cravats, and reauctioned as neckwear two nights later...
...behind her ears, at her elbows, temples and wrists. With a dark pencil she shapes her eyebrows to give an artful lift to her expression, brushes her lashes with a penlike wand to emphasize her blue eyes. Finally, 20 minutes later, she spreads on the finishing touch - an orange lipstick to match her fingernail polish...
...million women who have jobs. Young girls now battle parents to wear cosmetics in grammar school, and women's magazines are full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve now use at least one of the products manufactured by the U.S. beauty industry...
...supply the old as well as the new, some 2,600 companies are directly engaged in the manufacture of cosmetics. Milwaukee's Kolmar Laboratories, the world's largest private-label manufacturer of cosmetics, produces 1.800 shades of lipstick, uses 20.000 different cosmetic formulas for the 385 U.S. firms it serves. There are 110,000 beauty salons, more than twice the number of drugstores. And more than 5 million Americans patronize some 750 reducing salons and thousands of health and massage clubs...
Smith: That's only part of the problem. The real question is not how to cure the depression quickly, but to do what's best for the country in the long run. This means more than getting people to go out and buy a new lipstick or a new refrigerator. If the depression is to serve any purpose, the people, and especially businessmen, should learn the proper economic lessons from it. They should relearn such basic virtues as prudence and the value of a good day's work, and what is worth how much. We need...