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So named because it comprises the juice of eight vegetables - celery, carrots, beets, spinach, watercress, parsley and the "Campbell" tomato - V8 also evokes another classic American symbol: The powerful V-shaped eight-cylinder engine. As for V8 itself, the juice was first released in 1933, an invention of Frank Constable, who worked in Chicago as a contractor for the New England Products Company. V8 was acquired by the Campbell Soup Company (hence that "Campbell" tomato) in 1948. [Extracted from the article]

"Nobody had ever mutilated a cigarette before in American advertising - cigarettes, like automobiles, had always been treated with reverent respect by their manufacturers", Mad Woman Mary Wells Lawrence wrote in her 2002 memoir "A Big Life (In Advertising)". Altria itself holds a minority stake in Juul Labs, the embattled e-cigarette maker that is under scrutiny for its vaping products. Juul has been having about as a good a time as our free-falling friend in this ad: At least nine people have died around the country from mysterious vape-related lung illnesses in recent months. [Extracted from the article]

Here we have stockpot soup, noodles and ground beef soup, vegetable beef soup and plain old beef soup, all tasty enough for a woman but pH balanced for a man. The Manhandlers (the name will never not be funny) was a predecessor to Campbell's Chunky soup, introduced in 1970 and boasting of larger-than-usual pieces of meat and veggies. [Extracted from the article]

So we look to the past to see how our parents got around on the cheap: "The average housewife can drive the Fiat 600 all week for less than a dime a day", this 1960 ad crows. The Fiat 600 resembled its contemporary German rival, the Volkswagen Beetle, but don't let the size fool you. Fiat Chrysler announced last Tuesday - you could say it was declared by fiat - that it would be discontinuing production of two smaller versions of its predecessor, the 500 and the 500e, in North America (for a second time). [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a John Deere's advertisement that ran in Life magazine in late April 1967 that makes it fair game for the Good Life. It mentions that the ad ran around the same time that country music icon George Jones was stuck at home. It also mentions about lawn mower that were seen in advertisement and manufactured by John Deere.

The article offers brief information on the canned peaches from California Cling Peaches.

The article talks about certain words with its meaning and certain examples. Topics discussed include word "recommendation" showing the activity of high school graduates in getting the college admission in the U.S. universities and colleges, word "schadenfreude" showing experience of people; and word "influence" talks about power of producing an effect without apparent exertion.

The article offers information on the Plymouth car from Chrysler Corp.

The article reports that Mary Alexander, was the first African American model selected for advertising in the soft drink company Coca-Cola. It mentions that after earning a degree in education, Alexander, a granddaughter of slaves, would become her school district's first black female teacher and first black female principal.

The article examines marketing strategies of the Lark, an American brand of cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA in the U.S. It mentions that Lark's point of differentiation has historically been that its cigarettes have charcoal granules embedded in the filter, a fact used in marketing to suggest the brand as a healthier alternative.

The article offers information on dietary supplement Wate-On for weight loss.

The article reports on the efforts by cigarette company Philip Morris International (PMI) as of November 2018 to focus on the marketing of its device called IQOS, which heats tobacco rather than burning it.

The article provides information on the advertising agency N.W. Ayer that was founded by Francis Wayland Ayer in 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A review is offered of an advertising campaign created by U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. for its Model T Ford automobile in 1908.