Word: magnesia
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...final tremor of excitement was caused when Mayor Alfred N. Phillips Jr. (Milk of Magnesia) of Stamford, Conn, proposed that the mayors censure Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton for urging business to "gang up" on the New Deal (see p. 60). A Republican protested and Mayor Phillips was ruled out of order...
Nearly four years ago Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co. started a word game to promote toothpaste sales, offered prizes totaling $600 for the longest list of three-letter standard English words built from such phrases as: "Try Phillips Dental Magnesia," "Get Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste," "Try Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste." Among the 40,000 contestants was a young Queens, N. Y. lexicologist named Ira Gustave Gillman, who compiled six lists, one for each phrase, ranging in length from 150 to 297 words...
...possibility of outside interference, five radio bandmasters met this week in Paul Whiteman's Manhattan apartment, formed a Committee of Five for the Betterment of Radio. Members: Paul Whiteman (Kraft's Cheese), Rudy Vallée (Fleischmann's Yeast), Guy Lombardo (St. Joseph's Aspirin), Abe Lyman (Phillips' Milk of Magnesia), Richard Himber (Studebaker). Similar committees, they announced, would be formed in Chicago and San Francisco and other key cities...
...quintuplets survived that long. But Dr. Dafoe did not yet consider himself out of the woods. The weakest of the trio in the incubator again turned blue. She revived after two more drops of rum. She and her two companions then developed colic and constipation. Milk of magnesia and warm water enemas made them comfortable. Then all five turned yellow with jaundice. Dr. Dafoe overcame that, put them in the pink again...
Along this line I think it would be wise in the article labeled "New Deal Cold Cure" regarding Federal Cold Treatment No. I, to warn people who have not had their appendix removed to be very cautious about taking the castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge. I presume that you are assuming that this would be under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but by far the greater percentage of people who have colds do not take medicine under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but rather on their own initiative. . . . The coincident attack of appendicitis with...