Word: added
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the ad in the Wall Street Journal: "Management needs person or corporation to take complete charge of sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...
Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty...
...Angeles' Art Center School last week, paintings by 31 U.S. contemporaries were aligned like bottles in a hypochondriac's medicine chest. Alongside them hung slick-paper reproductions showing how each picture had been used as a magazine ad "health message" by the Upjohn Co. The artists had not had health particularly in mind; Upjohn had bought the pictures plus commercial rights, invented their own labels...
...Hope took an ad lib fall off a barrel on a Hollywood set, landed in the hospital with a badly wrenched back...
Specialists. In St. Louis, Piatt & Smillie Chemicals Inc. ran a want ad: "Salesman: expert driver, talker, liar, hunter, dancer, traveler, bridge player, poker player . . . capitalist . . . and authority on palmistry, chemistry and physiology," which drew replies from 83 applicants...