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Word: wormproof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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Selling Immortality. Next came "shock tactics," a series of suave radio commercials about what Eaton later called "the one purchase everybody has to make." Next, the builder boosted sales by offering waterproof, fireproof, wormproof and even quakeproof vaults. Every morning he called his salesmen together and started the day with a prayer and a pep talk. They must always remember, he told them, that they were selling immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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