Word: magnesia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Johns Manville (asbestos, magnesia) from 198 to 192, a decrease...
...casual U. S. passerby and he will stare blankly, show no recognition. Yet Drug, Inc. products are familiar to almost every literate U. S. citizen. What do babies cry for but Fletcher's Castoria? What have physicians endorsed for 50 years but Phillips Milk of Magnesia? Of what should one accept no substitute but insist on the genuine but Bayer's Aspirin? What works while you sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which, though independently owned, market Drug...
...sponsored an invitation competition for perfume bottle designs in the modern manner. This was held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver sheen exemplify I'art moderne, where expensive, fragrant distillations jet publicly before the eyes of purchasers, many of whom are fascinating, many merely ambitious. Mrs. Palmer has presided over the largest body...
...late Morris Schinasi, Eurasian Jew who migrated to the U. S. 35 years ago and gained wealth as a maker of Turkish cigarets, kept a glamorous fondness for his birthplace. The town was Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions...
...from 1911 to 1925, indicating the preference of young Thomas F. Manville Jr. and his sister Lorraine for cabarets, footlights, chorus girls and comedians, predicted a business event of last week-the passage of the H. S. Johns-Manville Co. of Manhattan, $32,000,000 manufacturer of asbestos and magnesia products, from the family that has built it up since 1858 to bankers who will run it now that there are no suitable Manvilles left...