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Ad – 1949: Betty Crocker Cake Mixes

Posted on March 5, 2021

Author: Steve Silverman

Categories: Food

Husbands Beat Wives, Betty Crocker Cake Mixes Ad, Today’s Woman, November 1949, page 160.

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