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When Palmolive merged with Kansas City's Peet Bros. (Crystal White Laundry Soap) in 1926, old Caleb Johnson was two years in his grave. When the combine took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap...
...Bayard Colgate, chairman of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., was elected a director of Yale & Towne Manufacturing...
Died. Eric Peet, 36, National A. A. U. senior singles four-wall hardball handball champion in 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Brooklyn...
Divorced. Robert Bangs Colgate, vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.; by Pamela Camroux Colgate; in Reno...
Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...