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Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and
teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and
articles about menstruation
See early tampons and a list of tampons on this site - at
least the ones I've cataloged.
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Small Wonder:
How Tambrands began, prospered, and grew
soft-cover book, 48 pages, 1986,
U.S.A.
Company/corporate history of
Tambrands, maker of Tampax menstrual
tampons, sanitary napkins, Draghi cancer
detection tampons, etc.
I thank the former Tambrands for
donating the book!
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Below: P.21.
Making Tampax.
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NEXT | cover - first
ad (picture) (1936) - "a catamenial device": early Tampax history - Ellery
Mann organizes Tampax Inc.
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Tampax Inc. begins -
Tampons danger to morality
- how to sell Tampax - 3
kinds of Tampax ads - first Tampax ad (analysis) -
Playtex innovations - early
investors - making Tampax - 1937: ads expensive, losses - success, ads key - Tampax expands,
buys competitors - Tampax loses applicator lawsuit,
Medipax fails - Tampax women "demonstrators" - NY World's Fair,
educational dept. starts - medical studies - improving cotton &
machinery - heating
tampons - Tampax goes to war
(WW II) -
Tampax moves to Palmer,
Mass. (1942) - how to wrap
Tampax? - soaring sales in
WW II - putting the little
tube inside
the big one - the
Tampax family - cheating the company - boss
a big joker - 1946:
drug-trade miracle - success & Hurricane Diana
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shortcomings - losing market to Playtex
& Rely tampons - TSS:
toxic shock syndrome - Tampax recovers &
diversifies -
1984: name changes to Tambrands
- Tambrands goin' good
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