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...reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...
...took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap supplier for Down Under, it is now one of the richest cogs in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's worldwide distribution system, a prime reason why the company dwarfs...
...held throughout the U. S. Their collective gift: an estimated $1,500,000 for the Roosevelt fund to aid victims of infantile paralysis. Biggest & brightest of all was the party at Washington's Hotel Mayflower, where beaming Eleanor Roosevelt plunged a knife into a big, red, white & blue cake. But just before Mrs. Roosevelt cut into the cake, the President cut into the Wagner health bill...
...great surprise was this substitution of plain bread for the rich cake of the Wagner bill. Last December, when the President first mentioned a hospital-construction plan, he was vigorously supported by the American Medical Association, which had vigorously opposed the Wagner bill. And for many months, Surgeon General Thomas Parran has been conducting a painstaking county-by-county survey of hospital facilities in the 48 States. On his desk last week were blueprints of neat little one-story hospitals, some of wood, others of brick and adobe, each planned to house 100 beds. Estimated cost: $150,000 apiece, including...
...Neville Chamberlain evolved a sugarless, butterless "Downing Street cake...