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Consumer industries, notably those making food and household products, were not far behind the basic producers. In the last quarter many cashed in heavily on OPA's death. Typical was Procter & Gamble: for the six months ending December 31 it netted $16,300,341 v. $9,456,033 in the same period of 1945. (And P. & G. had laid aside $14,500,000 to take care of any inventory loss if prices dropped...
...since proved to be impervious to critical assault & battery. It made its author, Anne Nichols, a millionaire several times over with its six years on Broadway (1922-28), innumerable road tours and stock performances, foreign royalties, one previous movie (1928) and a radio soap opera (withdrawn last year by Procter & Gamble after vigorous listener protests). In Manhattan for the premiere, Playwright Nichols predicts that Abie will go on making money for another 25 years...
...expected, prices increased overnight on scarce materials and products being made at a loss. Procter & Gamble, and other soapmakers, jacked up wholesale soap prices an average of 50%. General Electric and Westinghouse led the way in upping small motors, refrigerators, washers, ironers, etc., from 10% to 60%. Zinc, copper, lead, and tin also zoomed. In the first two days of free trading, the prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped...
Americans will soon have dirty faces and hands to go with their meatless tables. As the slaughtering of livestock declines, so falls the supply of tallow, a basic ingredient of soap. Last week Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest soapmakers, predicted that the soap shortage in the U.S. will soon be worse than during...
...When told what Frederic Wakeman had said in The Hucksters about the industry's ad-madness, she gasped: "Oh, it just isn't true! Procter & Gamble have always been lovely...