Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased last week were hot-dog men, peanut men, pop men, billboard men. Pleased also were auto men and tire men. Source of their pleasure was a prediction made by Builder Fred T. Ley ("No job too large, no job too small") head of Fred T. Ley & Co., Inc., holding company for Ley construction and real estate operations...
...resolved, that whereas recent advertisements have been creeping closer and closer toward the inducement of girls to adopt the smoking of cigarettes, and whereas this purpose is being more and more plainly announced, it is felt to be the duty of this council to declare that the now-appearing billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which merits strong disapproval and censure, because it is a flagrant luring and seductive effort to entice the girlhood...
Throughout France the U. S. Washburn Crosby flour company asks from many a billboard "Eventuellement, Pourquoi Pas Maintenant?";* but the Grands Moulins de Paris have no slogan. Explaining, last week, Miller Vilgrain said: "We French millers do not advertise, and sell almost wholly to bakers, seldom to the housewife, who does little of her own bread or pastry making. The competition offered by American flour firms in France is negligible.* The French miller does not advertise or claim superiority for his individual brand of flour, because both the price and quality are regulated...
Travellers to the Orient via the Suez Canal are dazzled by the huge electric billboard which informs at least 200,000 persons yearly that they ought to buy Sir Thomas Lipton...
Imperial West 45th St.--Oh Kay! The combination is appalling: Gershwin brothers, Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, Victor Moore, Betty Compton, Ohman and Arden, and more yet. Gertrude Lawrence makes all our American musical comedy stars look like--asterisks on a billboard. She dances, sings acts, looks enchanting and does every one of the various things in her own individual pleasing way. Betty Compton and Harland Dixon do a fine comedy dance together...