Word: productions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lifebuoy soap removes Body Odor. Some oldtime U. S. washers may think of the oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title...
...dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...
Prosaic businessmen not raised on canned milk but alive to its possibilities, reflected that in none of the three great and growing new Food Trusts is yet included an artificial milk product Undoubtedly there will some day be a place for Carnation products or their peers in the following: General Foods (makers...
...business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were likely to lose or throw away the other two powders and thus become discontented with the product. Then Mr. Liggett became interested in Vinol, a proprietary medicine. Vinol, popular, was widely distributed but the various drug stores handling it started a price cutting war. Thereupon Mr. Liggett appointed one store in each locality as Vinol selling agent, ended the price war and began his chain formation...
...owns a $50,000 piece of real estate, he may have to sacrifice $20,000 or $25,000 for an immediate sale. His land has no immediate market. It is an asset, but it is a frozen asset. From a merchandising standpoint, the realtor handles an excellent product but is handicapped by a primitive distribution system...