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...characters named Rusty and Salty set out to feast on steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum" ("I'm having a bad time, Salty. This side trim is aluminum"). Setting out to do likewise, Great Lakes Steel has recently sponsored commercials in which "Lulu La Lumium," a Tallulah-voiced aluminum bumper, is constantly banged and bent by a steel bumper with a strong masculine voice. Sample dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: The Perils of Lulu | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Word around Detroit was that other other steel companies would soon join the fray and that the aluminum men were considering bringing back Rusty and Salty as competition for Lulu La Lumium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: The Perils of Lulu | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...week Variety lumped together some specimens. There is the deodorant fortified with TD-4, the Confectioners 10-X sugar, the toothpaste containing WD-9, the motor oil boasting an "active ingredient" called Z-7. Other fortifiers, pharmaceutical gimmicks and syllabic concoctions from Madison Avenue test tubes: Gardol, Estron, Lurex, Lumium, Vionate, Bio-Dyne, Rynosec and Purscent, Liquifix, Radionics. Opaque-Ion, Neo-Synephrine, Hydrolin, SLS, Theradan, Sarthionate and Thorexin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aspirin, Anyone? | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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