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While makers of Camels, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Old Golds, by means of well-organized advertising campaigns induce customers to demand their brands, Union Tobacco with very little advertising induces cigar store clerks to push its chief cigaret brand, Three Kings (first called Three Castles...
American Linseed has not tried to abandon flaxseed products. But ten years ago it began to develop a sideline. Just as American Cotton Oil (now Gold Dust) pushed its soaps, American Linseed began to make and push a line of foodstuffs-Nucoa Nut margarine, Best Foods mayonnaise, relish spreads, thousand island dressing, shortening, Bread & Butter pickle relish. On the Pacific Coast its Gold Medal mayonnaise is the favorite salad dressing. Of these food items American Linseed, said Chairman Robert H. Adams this spring, last year sold $17,000,000 worth. Last February the Atlantic & Pacific chain groceries alone sold...
Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
Though each of these items was important, Number 2 seemed most important to Governor Bilbo. "I will push the passage of this measure," he cried "and will not smile upon any other until it has been passed...
...explain Hardy's position in English letters, it is necessary to push the story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them...