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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...
...Colvin & Co. last week surprised fellow brokers by offering to the public stock of Ford companies in Germany, Denmark, France. These foreign Ford shares had been considered almost unobtainable over here. Especially surprising were the German and Danish offerings, since 60% of German Ford is held by Ford Motors Co., Ltd., of England, and nearly all the remainder by I. G. Farbenindustrie. Less than 7% of Danish Ford shares were offered to the public in Denmark and Holland...
...oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank...
Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
Lord Leverhulme was in many ways a typical middle class Britisher?even in his appearance he looked somewhat like the cartoonist's conception of John Bull. He was almost always out of bed by 6:30 a. m. and in bed by 10:30 p. m. On the occasion of the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Lord Leverhulme attributed his success to his wife's "gracious influence," adding, however, that it would be a poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge...