Word: mersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank...
Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
...specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...
...century ago the hamlet of Birkenhead boasted some 50 inhabitants, rustics who scratched their polls in wonder at the great steamers plying to Liverpool, just across the River Mersey. Last week scholars of the Birkenhead School, all conscious that their potent industrial city now numbers over 100,000 souls, welcomed a sleek gentleman who once conned his three R's at Birkenhead School under the name of Freddy Smith. "My advice to you . . ." said the sleek gentleman while his auditors squirmed appreciatively, "My advice to you is to meet success, when it comes to you, like a gentleman...