Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 14″ ad for the additional products that come from the refining of petroleum and what companies like Shell are doing to provide them to the general public. The ad has a drawing of a table in a house where a lamp is flanked by a lit cigarette and a book of Shakespeare opened to an illustrated page. The headline says “From Cigarettes to Shakespeare…” and the text goes into details about how glycerin, which comes from the refining of petroleum, is used in printing and is added to cigarettes to provide “sufficient moisture so the cigarette burns slowly, coolly, pleasantly…”. It talks about more of the uses of Glycerin and that Shell has started construction on a new refinery that will capture more of this product so that we will have enough at an affordable price.
Source: May 12, 1947 Life magazine.
