In the days of the fierce Coca-Cola versus Pepsi advertisement wars, the message was clear: The soft drink industry and its refreshing beverages were certainly "the wave of the future".
The program cost 10 cents, featured a prominent advertisement soliciting war bonds and was marked up neatly in pencil, presumably by the horse player who donated it to the collection.
Mr. Hewitt said his natural reticence had also prevented him from pursuing much television or film work, although he had done voice-over work for advertisements for "War Horse," "Other Desert Cities" and several other Broadway shows.
It turns to the latter realm in its major summer auction, a sale (on Aug. 7) that, as usual, features something for everyone: commercial advertisements, Art Nouveau, war propaganda (the startling "Prisoner of Japan!
In one recent advertisement, a Vietnam War veteran injured by Agent Orange declared that a new Veterans Affairs hospital in Nevada "is being built for one reason - Harry Reid".
Mr. Kerry has yet to unveil a long-promised biographical advertisement highlighting his war record that Democrats urged him to broadcast as soon as possible as a rebuttal to Mr. Bush's $50 million crush of advertisements.
Even advertisements shifted into war mode.
Although airlines ran newspaper advertisements after World War I, the biggest aviation headlines belonged to fliers in relatively primitive piston-engine aircraft that challenged the Atlantic and transcontinental distances.
The advertisements feature Iraq war veterans and parents of veterans who lost family members in the war urging lawmakers who have supported the war not to switch their vote.
On the occasion of the potential twenty-billion dollar takeover of Cadbury by Kraft — a deal that Warren Buffett doesn't like at all — the Times of London has a collection of Second World War advertisements, explaining Cadbury's place in the British national consciousness, and that of chocolate in the fight against the Axis.
(Via Light Reading) On the occasion of the potential twenty-billion dollar takeover of Cadbury by Kraft — a deal that Warren Buffett doesn't like at all — the Times of London has a collection of Second World War advertisements, explaining Cadbury's place in the British national consciousness, and that of chocolate in the fight against the Axis.
