Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, led by the 60,000 members of the National Federation of Housewives, British women were boycotting their greengrocers, wearing bows of white tape to show that they wanted prices down. In Huddersfield the local N.F.H. chairman, Mrs. Neil Sykes, advised housewives to make their salads of nettle tops, primrose and cowslip leaves, dandelions and wood sorrel. And in a speech at Reading, Food Minister Maurice Webb made political capital of the boycott...
Comparative times indicate a very close mile-relay, with Harvard on top. Carter will edge Tod Lewis of Yale in the broad jump, but Elis George Appel and Neil King should pole vault higher than Bud Lockett. Lockett and Dick Barwise will get their opposition from George Hipple and Jim Keyes in the high jump
...door-to-door soap salesman, Neil McElroy long ago hit on a simple formula for winning customers: "Give them something good and expose them to it often." As boss of Procter & Gamble Co., biggest U.S. soapmakers, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) President McElroy, 45, has never let the old selling formula slip out of his hands. Thanks to 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...
Back of P. & G.'s omnipresent advertising is the smooth promotional touch of Neil McElroy, who moved into the president's chair only 19 months ago, when Richard Deupree became board chairman. Just out of Harvard in 1925, McElroy started at the bottom in P. & G.'s advertising department, plugged Camay toilet soap door-to-door, later directed ad campaigns for such products as Dreft, Drene, and Duz, which he made bestsellers. As president, he still likes the person-to-person approach, will talk soap to his wife's bridge party guests, or to anybody...
Also John F. Murphy, 3rd, Charles E. Nelson, Costas C. Rodis, Chase N. Peterson, Albert Rothenberg, Lowell Sachnoff, Richard M. Sandler, Ralph F. Sealers, William M. Simmons, Neil J. Smelser, Robert H. Thompson, and David B. Tyack...