Word: peete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the J.A.s need some big-time help with their wartime problems. They are due to get it soon: last month J.A.'s President Charles R. Hook of American Rolling Mill Co., its chairman, S. Bayard Colgate of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, and a long list of other heavyweights put the pressure on an even longer list of manufacturers for some subcontracts for the J.A.s. By last week 85% of the Manufacturers had turned the matter over to their production chiefs for "immediate consideration...
...Lever Bros., General Mills, General Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Carter Products, Miles Laboratories, Sterling Drug...
According to Lieutenant-Commander George H. L. Peet, who will direct the general aspects of the program, the Unit intends by physical education, not only to make its prospective officers fitter but to improve their qualities for officership...
Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...