Word: peet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective advertising...
...passed to Selected Industries, Inc., and affiliated investment groups. But bigger than any of these developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank. Other companies included were Hershey Chocolate Corp. and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Combined assets of the three exceed $125,000,000, placing the new company ahead of J. P. Morgan's Standard Brands...
...Dance of Death" has been described as a "single piece, a long procession of all orders of men, from the Pope to the lowest of human beings. Each figure has his partner, Death, the meagre spectre who leads the dance, shaking his remembering hour glass. The old peet, Lydgate, who flourished in the year 1430, translated a poem on the subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject...
...sales problem of today is not how to convince housewives to buy soap, but how to make them addicts of a particular brand. Manufacturers have appealed, variously, to vanity, comfort, whimsy. To the Palmolive-Peet Company, vanity appears the chief factor in the public's soap-buying. Women are urged to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." A faint odor of promiscuity hangs over the seductive call of Woodbury's Facial Soap-"A Skin You Love to Touch." But the forthrightness of the Woodbury laboratories (N. Y.), is reestablished by the picture of Founder John H. Woodbury, minus neck,* appearing...
Sales. By merging, the Colgate and Palmolive-Peet companies pool sales officially estimated in 1927 at $100,000,000. But they have not yet threatened the supremacy of Procter and Gamble. This Cincinnati house did a business last year of $191,776,978, remains the largest soap producer in the U. S., a triumph for 99 44/100% purity...