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SOAPMAKERS are working themselves into a new competitive lather. Their latest product: all-detergent soap bars. Procter & Gamble's "Zest" is already being test-marketed, as is Colgate's "Charmis"; Lever Bros, is reported to be rushing a detergent bar of its own into production. The big ad froth will come next year...
...times. Old Hand Taft has been mildly irked at some of the political amateurs in the new Administration. But he recognizes their problems and their handicaps. Said he: "It's like taking the twelve top executives of Procter & Gamble and wiping them out. Then you put in the twelve top men of A. T. & T. The telephone men are good executives, but they don't know how to make soap. If these men can understand what they're doing in their own departments in twelve months, I think they're doing pretty well...
...Austin, Minn. Started experimentally in 1931, it now covers some 8,000 employees. Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. began its famed "Share-the-Production" flexible annual-wage plan in 1935, has continued it, with slight modifications, ever since. Biggest and oldest of all plans is Procter & Gamble's. Begun in 1923, it guarantees each worker with a two-year service record 48 weeks of employment a year, and now covers 85% of all P. & G.'s hourly-wage employees...
Thomas D. Cabot '19, Executive vice-President of Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc.; Frederick B. Whitman '19, President of the Western Pacific Railway Co.; Roy E. Larsen '21, President and Director of Time, Inc.; Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23, Mayor of Philadelphia; Neil McElroy '25, President of Procter & Gamble Co.; and John W. Hallowell '31, Headmaster of Western Reserve Academy, Ohio...
...scientific achievement" Sheilds Warren, Medical School professor of Pathology, who is director of the Division of Biology and Medicine of the Atomic Energy Commission, received the third annual award of the William Procter Prize...