Word: powders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight-lipped brothers are masters of a tightly run empire with an estimated net worth in excess of $65 million. Its citadel is the sprawling Western Cartridge Co. at East Alton, Ill., on the Mississippi bluffs just north of St. Louis. This huge plant grew out of a blasting-powder business which their father, Franklin, founded...
Science Service revealed yesterday that most manufacturers have been adding powdered saccharine--200 times sweeter than sugar--to their current lipstick offerings. Just a little powder--it can be balanced on a pinhead--gives enough of a boost to each stick...
...opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
...living standard of the ad-smiths improved rapidly. Other manufacturers, led by the makers of such simple consumer items as soap and baking powder, began to learn the lessons of trademarks, contact with the customer, expanding demand. In church one Sunday morning in 1879, Harley T. Procter, of Procter & Gamble, listened to a passage from the 45th psalm (". . . all thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they made thee glad . . .") and coined the label "Ivory Soap." In 1890, Kodak launched one of the first relentlessly successful slogans: "You press the button...
Spread Thin. Having spread the facts on the record, Armour Laboratories began spreading the short supply of ACTH thinner than ever. Contracts were signed with 45 leading hospitals and clinics across the U.S. To qualify for a tiny share of the priceless powder (it is not for sale), each institution must show that it has the staff and equipment to carry out carefully controlled experiments...