Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!mcdaniel From: mcdaniel@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: 1975 Ad Message-ID: <8700211@uiucdcsb> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 13:24:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.8700211 Posted: Sun Aug 11 13:24:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:32:07 EDT Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsb:8700211:000:1378 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!mcdaniel Aug 11 12:24:00 1985 I was rereading an issue of Smithsonian Magazine, April 1975, and found this interesting ad. Read it twice. [Facing page: a small boy in a chair, with a red nose, a big bowl of soup, looking miserable.] WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR YOUR HEALTH IS A LOT MORE COMFORTING THAN A BOWL OF CHICKEN SOUP. When you're sick, you need a good bowl of soup, a tender hand on your hot brow, sympathy and understanding. Little things at home relieve a lot of your misery. But a big corporation offers human solace too. Many of the medicines you find at your drugstore are made with our chemicals. Aspirin to bring down your burning fever, lozenges to soothe your poor sore throat, sedatives to let you fall asleep at last. We help you get through a case of the sniffles. But we're also involved in more serious things. We make . . . [sundry medical goods: radioactive tracers, cryogenic freezing for blood, blood analyzers, et cetera] We make gases that sterilize surgical equipment. And Eveready batteries for hearing aids. . . . And we constantly experiment. Because one innovation often leads us to another. We are 109,000 involved human beings who work all around the world on things and idea for every basic need. So today, something we do will touch your life. And may even help save it. Union Carbide: Today, something we do will touch your life.