Word: swans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...
...Swan Song? For three hours George Norris spoke to the empty seats and the crowded galleries. At the end he sank back in his chair, a tired man who had more to say but not the strength to say it. At 81, George Norris did not have many three-hour speeches left in his system. Perhaps this was George Norris' swan song. His term expires this year and he has told his friends that 40 years in Congress are enough...
...years huge Lever Bros. (Swan Spry, Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy, etc.) and huger Procter & Gamble (Ivory, Crisco, Oxydol, etc.) have slugged at each other in the nice-Nellie manner of the advertising campaign—with occasional forays that were not so nice, but not so noticeable to the layman, either. Now the battle has exploded in a big way: in Boston a Federal grand jury indicted Procter & Gamble for using the mails to defraud. By the terms of a 57-page, 40-count indictment this turns out to mean bribing various Lever Bros, employes with aliases like "Babe," "Red" and "Chick...
Suits & Counter Suits. While Lever Bros, was still experimenting with its floating wonder (already dubbed "Swan" and being tested in key sales areas), Procter & Gamble, in 1940, came out with a "new Ivory" also made by a continuous process. In February 1941, Lever cracked down on the "new Ivory" in the Baltimore courts with a patent-infringement suit. Less than two months later P. & G. hit back with a Cincinnati plea for an injunction against the sales of Swan as an obvious and unfair imitation of Ivory...
Every night we have observed large windows which have not been darkened in compliance with precautionary measures. W. B. Sanford, Alan N. Houghton, Thomas D. Connolly, Jr., Samuel Robbins, Franklin C. French, Calvin W. Cutler, Edward M. Rothman, Thaxter Swan, James E. Connor...