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Believed to be the first coupon ever, this ticket for a free glass of Coca-Cola was first distributed in 1888 to help promote the drink. By 1913, the company had redeemed 8.5 million tickets. [6] Coca-Cola's 1888-issued "free glass of" is the earliest documented coupon. [6] [7] Coupons were mailed to potential customers and placed in magazines ...
The international glass code is based on U.S. military standard MIL-G-174, and is a six-digit number specifying the glass according to its refractive index n d at the Fraunhofer d- (or D 3-) line, 589.3 nm, and its Abbe number V d also taken at that line.
The books contained 24 pages and filling a page required 50 points, so each book contained 1,200 points. Shoppers could exchange filled books for premiums, including housewares and other items, from the local Green Stamps store or catalog. Each premium was assigned a value expressed by the number of filled stamp books required to obtain it.
News America Marketing, often referred to as just News America, was a marketing business previously owned by News Corp.It publishes SmartSource Magazine, a weekly consumer-branded newspaper insert offering advertising and coupon promotions, delivered in over 1,600 newspapers in the U.S. [1] and is one of three companies in the United States (the other two are Valassis Communications and ...
A Common Reader: Books for Readers with Imagination was an American mail-order book catalog, established in 1986 by James Mustich Jr., a bookseller, editor, and writer. It was notable among general-interest book catalogs for its eclecticism, with large sections of each issue given over to obscure literary classics.
On March 4, 1933, Lawrence Hoyt (1902–1982), [1] [2] a former sales manager for Simon & Schuster, [3] and Melvin T. Kafka (1905–1992) [4] [5] opened a rental library within leased space inside a Bridgeport, Connecticut, department store under the name Walden Book Company (named for Henry David Thoreau's Walden, a meditation on simple living in natural surroundings). [6]
The New Martinsville was founded in 1901 in an old glass factory in New Martinsville, West Virginia. At first, it relied upon pressed glass patterns for the majority of its income. By 1905 the company began embellishing their work by adding gold paint and ruby stain. [4]
The Westmoreland Glass Company was founded in 1889 when a group of men purchased the Specialty Glass Company located in East Liverpool, Ohio, and moved it to Grapeville, Pennsylvania. [1] Grapeville was chosen as the location of the factory because the property had a large source of natural gas. George West served as president of the company ...