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...Soap sales boomed the first quarter of last year when retailers and the public stocked up before the 3?-per-lb. tax on imported vegetable and fish oils raised prices. Last week Procter & Gamble reported fourth quarter earnings of $3,458,000 which brought earnings for the calendar year to $14,000,000 against...
Although a new bread trail in the Uneanoonue will be used for earth practices, later the team will move up to Pinkham Notch in the White Mountains where Coach Charley Procter of Dartmouth and Olympic repute, has laid out a trail down Tuckerman Ravine...
...South Bend, Ind., the process of spraying soft soap through a nozzle and having it dry before it falls engaged the million-dollar attention of a battalion of lawyers who represented four-fifths of the entire U. S. soap business. Brilliant Newton Diehl Baker led the mass-attack of Procter & Gamble (Ivory Snow) and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet (Supersuds) against Lever Brothers Co. (Rinso) for alleged infringement of patents...
...Procter & Gamble may be many years the junior of Colgate but its profits are bigger, more consistent. Its peak year, curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...
William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...