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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year researching ammoniated pastes, expect to gross $3,000,000 on Amm-i-Dent powder but to lose money on it-because of the high promotion and research costs-until 1951. By last week the field was getting crowded. Sterling Drug had brought out an ammoniated version of Dr. Lyon's powder; Rexall took full-page ads to announce its AmoRex (a paste). Tide Magazine counted up 29 companies that were either in the field or about to jump in. Soon, it appeared any paste or powder without the new ingredient would be tagged as oldfashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: The Teeth of Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Mary Lyon '50 heads the all-Radcliffe committee which is sponsoring the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Will Hold Two-day Forum on Art | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...third time in its 14 years in power, Canada's Liberal government was about to go to the country in a general election. For the first time in 30 years it would be without the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Last November he had given up the Prime Ministry; last week, having announced that he would not stand for reelection, he ended 33 years as a Member of Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Leadership Test | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...bright, peaceful California afternoon in San Marino, and the children raced each other across the lot-little Kathy Fiscus, 3, her sister Barbara, 9, and her cousin Gus Lyon, 5. Kathy fell behind. When the children looked back for her, she had vanished. Gus heard faint screams. Following the sound, he came to an open hole in a clump of weeds. The hole was only 14 inches across, and the pipe that lined it was rusted and corroded. Kathy had fallen into an abandoned and forgotten water well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Lost Child | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...boasts of a sound faculty, without world-famous names. "There are no [Harold] Ureys or [William Lyon] Phelpses on the staff," explained one professor, "but it is good and solid." There are some famous names, however, among its alumni: John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; Newton D. Baker, Wilson's Secretary of War, three of the last four governors of Virginia, and two of the last three of West Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Gentlemen Minks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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