Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry had held out on the thirsty public, the subcommittee cited a big advertisement, called "The Truth About the Whiskey Shortage," which the Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc., ran in hundreds of U.S. newspapers at the end of last year. Signed by 57 members of the liquor industry, the ad said that the U.S. then had only 203,000,000 proof gallons of whiskey on hand. Since that amount would have to last until production was resumed, the ad urged the public not to hoard...
...subcommittee called this statement a "misrepresentation." The Senators pointed to Treasury Department figures for November 1943, which showed 392,063,092 tax gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses. They charged that the distillers had also failed to mention in their ad: 1) the 30,000,000 proof gallons of neutral spirits in bonded warehouses which would be blended with much of the straight whiskey before sale; 2) the fact that in most blends distilled water is added to cut the proof from too to 86. Also, the industry's estimate of 96,000,000 gallons for leakage, evaporation...
...fellow can give the sort of welcome he ought to give to a litter of setter pups in the spring. To watch them grow up with all the other new, young things in a world that's bright and free. . . . Your loving son, Bill." In Normandy the ad caught the eye of an insulted soldier writer for a service paper called Le Tomahawk, who raised a tomahawk and went to work...
Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...