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...American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of permitting every factory in an industry to spend most of its energies on war production and some of it in supplying civil markets, the concentration committee is drafting a program to allocate all non-essential production to a few plants which will give it their full attention. Brand-names and trademarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pigs is Pigs | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...much as 50? for one item in his stock. Broker Eggleston gets his wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops from Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Box-Top Broker | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Procter & Gamble was to continue to rent the largest amount of air time. With 13 hr. 15 min. a week on National Broadcasting networks, P. & G. will spend some $3,000.000 this year on seven different programs to plug Oxydol, Ivory Soap, Camay, Chipso, Crisco. Because it now uses day time exclusively, Radio's No. i customer is not likely to be inconvenienced this autumn, as will many another advertiser, by the many and unavoidable interruptions caused by the political oratory of a Presidential campaign. As in the past, most of P. & G.'s programs will be serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Procter & Gamble announced last week that it had sold more Ivory soap, P. & G., Jap Rose, Camay, Chipso, Crisco and all other P. & G. products in the first three months of 1934 than in any other quarter in the 97 years of its history. In dollars its sales were only at the 1932 level but in tonnage the quarter set a record. Earnings were $4,031,000 against $2,451,000 in the same period of last year. To Chairman William Cooper Procter, who makes 40% of all U. S. soap, the future should have appeared fine and dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stampede to Soap | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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