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...questioned Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...
...that, as P. & G. reported last week, earnings for the first nine months of its current fiscal year soared to $49 million, up $15.5 million from last year. What impressed stockholders even more was that P. & G.'s earnings were climbing at a time when its biggest competitor, Lever Bros., was taking losses (TIME...
Capped Wells. Phillips and the other oil companies feared the threat to fix their gas prices, but what they feared more was that FPC would use the authority it won over gas as a lever to try to declare the whole oil industry a public utility-and thus control oil prices and profits also. (Since gas is a byproduct of oil development, the big oil companies are also big gas producers.) The result was that many of the big producers refused to sell gas to the interstate pipelines. They pumped the gas back into the ground, sold it only within...
...Hope's $22,500 weekly stint, rumor says, will be dropped this spring by Lever Bros. Rexall Drugs is replacing the $14,500 Phil Harris and Alice Faye show with Richard Diamond, a Dick Powell $4,500 thriller. Amos 'n' Andy reportedly may have to slice their $20,000 price tag if they remain on the air. Burns & Allen, a $12,000 package last year, is now said to be selling for $8,500. Gloomed one radioman: "The handwriting on the wall is getting bigger and redder than ever, and these are the days when people...
...Lincoln Memorial, on the apparent theory that the emancipator was too good for the G.O.P.). The speakers' table was aglow with the beaming faces of the President and Vice President, Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle & wife, Mrs. 0. Max Gardner, widow of the late Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lever Bros.' Ex-President Charles Luckman and fourscore or more Cabinet officers, governors and big-shot Democrats from coast to coast. The 523 tables at which 5,300 ordinary diners sat, elbow to elbow on folding chairs, were fitted out with red, white, blue or starred tablecloths, thus creating...