The company first started selling Wildroot Hair Tonic in 1911,
In the 1920s, the tonic was primarily marketed to women, with advertisements warning that bobbed hair and tight hats would
cause baldness, unless they used the Wildroot product.

Wildroot started marketing the product to men in the 1930s,
In 1937, the company was scolded by the Federal Trade
Commission for claiming that Wildroot Hair Tonic keeps
the scalp "healthy", "penetrates" the sebaceous glands,
cleans up dandruff "completely", and that the results were "guaranteed".    

Wildroot Cream-Oil was first sold in 1943, In the 1950s, it was
associated with the greaser subculture, teenage boys who
slicked their hair down into a ducktail style.^]

A "Wildroot Hair Groom" is still being marketed today by the
Oakhurst Company.  

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Pep was a brand of whole-wheat breakfast cereal produced by
the Kellogg Company, and introduced in 1923, which became
the first to be fortified with vitamins B and D in 1938. Pep was
a long-running rival to Wheaties, and also the sponsor of Mutual
Radio‘s The Adventures of Superman radio series. One of Pep’s advertising slogans was "the Sunshine cereal".

Pep ad featuring Our Gang (1928).

On January 23, 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company rolled
out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs—now known
to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where
William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871. Students
from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each
other, yelling “Frisbie!” as they let go. In 1948, Walter Frederick
Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic
version of the disc called the “Flying Saucer” that could fly further
and more accurately than the tin pie plates. After splitting with Franscioni, Morrison made an improved model in 1955 and sold it
to the new toy company Wham-O as the “Pluto Platter”–an attempt
to cash in on the public craze over space and Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs).

Walter Frederick Morrison
(January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010)

Nancy Green (below) portrayed the Aunt Jemima character at the
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, one of the first
Black corporate models in the United States.

Subsequent advertising agencies hired dozens of actors to perform
the role as the first organized sales promotion campaign.           

The Aunt Jemima character has been criticized as an example of
the exploitation of Black women in American society. "Aunt Jemima"
is sometimes used as a female version of the derogatory epithet
"Uncle Tom" or "Rastus". In June 2020, Quaker Oats announced
that the Aunt Jemima brand would be discontinued "to make
progress toward racial equality", and the brand was discontinued
one year later.

Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (L), founder of the March
of Dimes to fight polio, is shown at the White House with
Basil O’Connor, who worked with the president in forming
the charity.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founded the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed
the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938. A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc
among American children every summer. The virus, which affects
the central nervous system, flourished in contaminated food and
water and was easily transmitted. Those who survived the disease
usually suffered from debilitating paralysis into their adult lives. In
1921, at the relatively advanced age of 39, Roosevelt contracted
polio and lost the use of his legs. With the help of the media, his
Secret Service and careful event planning, Roosevelt managed to
keep his disease out of the public eye, yet his personal experience inspired in him an empathy with the handicapped and prompted
him to the found the March of Dimes.

Roosevelt talking with two young fellow polio patients at
Warm Springs.