Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Told the American Dental Association: "I still have . . . more teeth than most any other 67-year-old man," and put in a plug for his compulsory health-insurance program...
When the promoters deal in a stock for which there is a market, they often jack up the price 100% or more when selling to U.S. customers. Example: promoters got thousands of copies of a Toronto Financial Post oil supplement, substituted a phony page to plug the "Moose Pasture Oil Company," and mailed the copies to a list of potential U.S. suckers. For the stock, which was selling at 20? a share in Toronto, they asked...
Bing took his idea to Frank Stanton, president of CBS (owner of Columbia Records). In a matter of minutes, he had a $70,000 loan. "Of course," says Bing, "it wasn't just because of my pretty blue eyes." The tour will be a high-class plug for Columbia's new Fledermaus album...
Spartan Sparker. Boeing Airplane Co. has developed a new antifouling sparkplug for gas engines that it says is the "first significant design change in sparkplugs in 30 years." The new plug, not in production yet, has its ignition points recessed inside its shell instead of sticking out the end, has been run 20 times longer than other plugs without cleaning...
...sold so well that in 1933 his father made him president and stepped up to chairman (he died in 1938). Maxey took over at the bottom of the Depression, but instead of retrenching, he decided to expand. He started four systems of retail stores, launched an advertising campaign to plug the company...