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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. 37. Rutland, Vermont, Tampax
                                      plant opens. 
                                      Manufacturing problems putting the
                                        little tube inside the big one.
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                            NEXT | cover - first ad (picture)
                            (1936) - "a catamenial device": early Tampax history
                            - Ellery Mann organizes Tampax Inc. - 
                            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 -  
                            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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