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Last week Drug Tycoon Liggett arranged to buy in another product, Vick's Vapo-Rub, made by Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Business | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

While the foreman watched 'em rub...

Author: By C. C. P. and D. R., S | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

Vick Chemical Co. (Vicks Vapo-Rub): $3,631,075 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Feb. 10, 1930 | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...want you all to rub...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks kissed. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks it is not the Mode here; the first is reckon'd rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal and Consuming All Its Smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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