Word: liquidator
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...easygoing Lafayette, La. (pop. 19,210), 425 factory workers bustled each working day last week turning out more than 100,000 bottles of a murky brown liquid that tastes something like bilge water, and smells worse. The patent medicine called Hadacol has been such a resounding success in 14 Southern states that its backers expect this year to sell $20,000,000 worth (in 8-oz. bottles at $1.25, or in the 24-oz. family...
...whole U.S. economy has grown so impressively that comparisons with the past rarely told the whole story. In 1939, the U.S. population had total liquid savings (i.e., cash or its equivalent) of $49.6 billion, only $3.1 billion more than the total value of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1950 the liquid savings stood at $175 billion, more than double the total value of all stocks listed on the Big Board...
...boost earnings still more, confident P. & G. was test-selling a batch of new products last week. Among them: Cheer, a synthetic laundry detergent; Joy, a liquid cleanser for dishes; and Wondra, a "washoff" cold cream. P. & G. also plans to invade the fast-growing home-permanent-wave field with a product called Lilt...
...John Citizen have a toilet? If so was it inside the house or outside-or did he just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...
...party will be closed to all but juniors, and their dates. Entertainment will consist of music by the Crimson Stompers, specialty artists, and liquid refreshments...