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Word: shampoos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Does it hurt? "Yes, but you get used to the pain." Does she do anything special to lessen the strain? "I eat vitamin pills-A and B-and I brush my hair a lot," she says. "And I wash it once a week like everybody else." What kind of shampoo? "That's another secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circuses: Ouch! | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...past month Alberto-Culver has brought out three new products: a skin lotion, a shampoo concentrate and an aerosol antiseptic spray that hardens to form a "bandage." This week Alberto-Culver begins test-marketing its New Dawn hair-coloring shampoo for fading women and Mighty White toothpaste, with toy cutouts on the box, for the children's market. Launching products is costly, but markups on toiletries are so high that Alberto-Culver last year earned 68.1% on invested capital. Profits were $2,300,000. So far this year, sales are up 48% and profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Scalping the Competition | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Almost from the moment that his chemists start to work on a new product, Lavin's advertising men are preparing saturation campaigns. Even before Alberto-Culver finished developing its Subdue dandruff shampoo, the admen had filmed the TV commercials. If test audiences respond enthusiastically to the commercials, Lavin brings out the product. At times Lavin has put more than 50% of his sales into advertising, this year will invest well over $30 million. Television will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Scalping the Competition | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...boys use a shampoo and 90% use a hair dressing (two-thirds of them once a day or oftener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Tidy Teens | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...race to get to the consumer first has forced companies to shorten their product development time, and in some cases has actually made the product secondary in the sweat to sell it. Chicago's Alberto-Culver was so eager to beat Procter & Gamble's Head and Shoulders shampoo to market that it filmed the TV commercials for its Subdue shampoo even before it had developed the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: The Short Happy Life | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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