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...committee which is running the dance consists of George Putnam, chairman, John R. Abbott, Robert G. Axtell, Benjamin O. Gardiner, Howard T. Healy, Albert F. Hyde, H. W. Ford King, Caleb Loring, Jr., Anson G. McCook, Donald E. McNicol, William T. Murphy, Charles S. Putnam, and Richard L. Weinberg...
...Waldstein leads the pitching staff with Bob Luskin and Joe Phelan backing him up. Jerry Callanan and Jay McConville are competing for catcher, while Caleb Loring, Bob Axtell, and Bob Potter are likely outfielders...
When Palmolive merged with Kansas City's Peet Bros. (Crystal White Laundry Soap) in 1926, old Caleb Johnson was two years in his grave. When the combine 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...
...turned the presidency over to big, hard-working Edward Herman Little. A North Carolina farmer boy, Soapman Little was doing fine as Colgate's Memphis district manager when tuberculosis sent him to Denver in 1911. Three years later he came back, cured, went to work for Caleb Johnson, rode out the mergers, took over Palmolive-Peet's foreign division and boomed it. In his two years as president he has stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What that means was handsomely illustrated in C-P-P's preliminary annual...
...toilet-size cakes) of soap apiece. Next come the Dutch, two pounds under the U. S. record. With its worldwide coverage in soaps C-P-P would be sitting pretty if other nations would follow suit. The hot-water-bathing Japanese, for instance. Last year the race that scorned Caleb Johnson's Palmolive did no better than six cakes of soap apiece...