Word: logo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturn, I went to GM's Milford Proving Grounds in suburban Detroit, where officials rolled out all three models: the standard sedan, the high-performance sedan and the sporty coupe. Since this was a secret mission, weeks in advance of the product launch, all traces of the company logo and the brand name were covered by masking tape...
...morning, the Jerusalem Post, ran an suprising logo above its masthead: a gas mask. "Gasmask information, Page 2," read the words around a graphic of what looked like a vintage World War I gas mask...
...venerable publishing house's logo portrays a young woman blowing softly through a dandelion, sowing knowledge. What an upset, then, for Larousse to discover spores of deadly misinformation in the latest edition of its dictionary. A color illustration on page 203 of the 1991 Petit Larousse en Couleurs incorrectly identifies three highly poisonous wild mushrooms as being harmless...
...Newtons allegedly circulated a flyer claiming that the president of P&G "gave Satan all the credit for his riches" and offering information on "alternative products." For more than a decade, P&G has been bedeviled by the satanism charge. Tales that its 108-year-old moon-and-stars logo was demonic forced the symbol off company packaging. Three previous rumors were traced to Amway distributors, who were repudiated by Amway officials...
...some of those logos are gone, while others have new owners. Gulf's orange ball went down like a setting sun, replaced by Chevron's stripes after a corporate takeover. More important, some of the new owners are foreign oil companies. Texaco's refining and marketing operations in 26 Eastern and Gulf Coast states are now half-owned by the Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco. Venezuela's national petroleum company bought out Citgo. In Europe a new symbol has emerged: Q8. The homophonic logo representing Kuwait's oil company appears on the signs of 4,800 gasoline stations in Western...