Word: sal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Castoria, Listerine, Sal-Hepatica and four out of five of all the best-publicized drugs in the U. S. medicine cabinet last week congregated in Manhattan for an evangelical meeting of the Proprietary Association. This organization, headed for 22 years by Castoria's Frank Anthony Blair, is spokesman, defender and apologist for an industry which annually makes and sells $300,000,000 worth of medicines, antiseptics, and hygienic supplies...
...country, a cantankerous husband who had not had a job since the War. three growing children. Most of her family, most of her friends thought Claudia a wonder, gave her their admiring pity for being such a cheerful martyr. But women are hard to fool about women. Her partner Sal, her sister Anna saw through Claudia. One of her daughters was beginning...
...first real signs of action by the Administration on a new food & drug law. The Senate Commerce Committee reported out a bill which was much less than Dr. Tugwell and Mrs. Roosevelt had originally planned, but much more than the makers and merchandisers of Ovaltine, Listerine, Ex-Lax, Sal Hepatica, Vicks, Fleischmann's Yeast, Aspirin, Pepsodent, Danderine, Vitalis, et al. cared to accept voluntarily. And President Roosevelt prodded Congress on to action with a special message...
Sparkless Sal, first motorized piece of apparatus of the Cambridge fire department, has been retired after 13 years of faithful duty, tominated a month age by a fairly substantial crash with a garbage wagon following a skid on the icy streets...
...hardy fire-enters of Cambridge were almost as sentimental over Sal as their predecessors would have been over the proverbial fire-horse of a few decades ago. Any grief that they might have felt over Sal's retirement, however, was amply dispelled by her successor, a G1-foot aerial laddor and water tower...