Word: peete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soap Down. Soap manufacturers, who cut wholesale prices 10% only two months ago, announced new reductions. Procter & Gamble Co.'s cut averaged 5%, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.'s 8%, Lever Bros. Co.'s 5%. Reason: declines in prices of oils and fats...
...college does not show its years. Beloit was once called the "Yale of the West" because two of its founders, Stephen Peet and Aaron Chapin, and its first two faculty members were all Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie...
...denied saying such a thing, an ugly boycott elbowed through Mexico. "Foreigners and Masons" bore the brunt of it. One of its instant effects: "pastillas de Palmolives" disappeared from grocers' shelves. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet advertised frantically for sales agents...
...week after the boycott started Archbishop Martinez gave the word that stopped it. Said he: "I judge that it is far from proven that Colgate-Palmolive-Peet is an organization dedicated to support Protestant missions with its contributions. This being the case, it is not only undesirable but unjust to attack it with the boycott...
Repeated broadcasts of the denial and the exoneration of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet finally took the lather off the boycott. But last week stickers protesting the "Protestant invasion" appeared again in Mexico City...