B.V.D.
Americanabbreviation
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Glen Alden is a onetime coal company that Riklis has been using for acquisitions in such areas as Playtex underwear, B.V.D. shorts and, most recently, Schenley Industries.
From Time Magazine Archive
B.V.D. sparked another style revolution in the '30s, when its publicity stills of Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kodak, B.V.D., and Coca-Cola have for generations bared their teeth in courtrooms to protect their names from slipping into the generic limbo where mimeograph and nylon now languish in lower-case ignominy.
From Time Magazine Archive
With money from its first public stock issue last February, B.V.D. has acquired four firms.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m just wearing my usual. Starting from the bottom, I have B.V.D. briefs, size ten, one tee shirt...”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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