Word: luxor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a few side trips to the pyramids at Giza and the Temple of Amun at Luxor, Eugénie arrived at Port Said on the Aigle. There she was met by the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Prince of The Netherlands...
...products. For $5 ½ million, he picked up the Harriet Hubbard Ayer line of cosmetics (TIME, July 21), spent another million renovating its factory and hiring Raymond Loewy Associates to dress up its packaging and display. For $1.2 million, Luckman added a lower-priced cosmetic line (Luxor) to be sold through drugstores...
Luckman Jumps In. Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, already deep in cosmetics (Harriet Hubbard Ayer and Luxor), toothpaste and soap, jumped into the booming business of home permanents (TIME, April 19). He paid Manhattan's William R. Warner & Co., Inc. about $5,000,000 for the trademarks and processes of Rayve Creme Shampoo and Hedy Home Wave...
...Footless Gods. In Luxor, Egypt, archeologists from the University of Chicago are patiently pecking away at mud plaster on the interior walls of the temple of Rameses III. They have been at it for years, for the temple contains Egyptian bas-reliefs religiously preserved. When Egypt was Christianized, the temple was turned into a church; the Christians chiseled off the heads & feet of the ancient, carved gods (works of the devil) and covered them with mud. Now the Chicago diggers are picking off the mud, almost grain by grain, and finding beneath it the ancient gods, headless and footless...
...founded in 1839 by John Lowell (of The Lowells).* John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly. Ill and atrabilious, he began a round-the-world trip with all the comforts of home (items: a horse and a portrait painter). In Luxor, Egypt, he drew up his will; in Bombay, India, he died...