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| PCSO NEW YEAR'S DRAW, 1965 |
What better way to welcome the New Year than to review the ads of two institutions that are in the business of securing our financial future?
The
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office's New Year lottery offering was the grand prize of P300,000--a munificent sum back in 1965, although still smaller than the half-a-million it gave away in its Christmas draw. PCSO was created in October 1934, and was approved by Pres. Manuel L. Quezon in 1935 to conduct lotteries to support charitable and social welfare causes.
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| PHIL-AMERICAN INSURANCE CORP., New Year Ad, 1959 |
Six years earlier, the
Philippine American Insurance Companies which include
Philamlife and
Philamgen, greeted it clients with an an all-Filipino copy ad. Philamlife is still in existence today, and is regarded as the country’s premier life insurance company. Established on June 21, 1947 by Cornelius Vander Starr with Earl Carroll as founding president, Philamlife served as a “house of savings” to help Filipinos recover from the ravages of World War II.
Indeed, after all the merrymaking and the endless spending, isn't it time we think of the future? PCSO and Philamlife may yet hold the answer for your prosperous New Year!
