Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incentive that led athletes to take up boxing. While these men were young they boxed in the local gymnasium in a keen but friendly manner which developed that instructive knack of ring generalship that is so necessary in the making of a champion. This type of boxer was the product of the city neighborhood athletic club...
...advertising campaign carried on J. Walter Thompson Company for "Lux", a Cambridge product, was awarded the $1500 cash prize and certificate for the best national campaign advertising a specific product, last evening at the Union...
...Exile has been very bitter. I believe I am a good Communist, an excellent internationalist, but I am first of all a Frenchman, a product of France according to the theory of Taine. I have seen apple trees in the Crimea, but they are not to be compared to the apple trees of Normandy...
...long ago, an enterprising gentleman named Van Heusen invented a soft collar for male wearers, and obtained basic patent rights to the product. Subsequently, he sold these patents to the Phillips-Jones Co., and has received $1,000,000 in royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt...
...safe to say that the unpretending Mr. I did not seek such distinction. His fame is a mushroom growth, a by-product of his voyage into these strange lands. If he came with premonition that he was to become a public character, it was because he was uninformed how the American public hungers for the superlative--no matter how superlatively insignificant...