Word: crated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...
Even more heretical than Soapman Fels is Soapman J. Crate Larkin, who is really a soapman only by tradition. Larkin Co. was founded as a soap works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...
Three sons and six grandsons of the founder are in the business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...
...brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white for Argentina, the other yellow and green for Brazil...
...cases, the nine old gentlemen on the bench began to ask questions with the amused detachment of sages from the moon. To begin with, they wanted to know all about the chicken business. Justice Sutherland was told that in "straight killing" the customer buys the contents of a crate sight unseen. If a customer wants a half crate, "you just break the box in half...