Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fusing the Powder...
...there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
...pieces created for her summer palace near St. Petersburg; Queen Charlotte of Britain in 1765 was so enamored of her cream-colored earthenware that she commanded that it henceforth be called "the Queen's Ware." Only recently the Queen of Thailand placed her order for 400 pieces of powder blue Columbia...
Extra Value. When the compromise agreement finally came, the companies lost no time getting their low-priced, low-promotion suds to the market. P. & G. slapped "Extra Value" labels on its Tide detergent, and Oxydol soap powder dutifully cut its prices by 20%. Lever followed with its Square Deal Surf, also selling for 20% less than the old stuff. Early reports had British housewives snapping up the cut-price products by the armload...
...Harvard sailing team won one regatta and came in seventh in another but its Radcliffe counterpart came through the weekend untarnished and with the Powder Puff Trophy...