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Sternly pure (99 44/100%) is Procter and Gamble's Ivory Soap, famed for floating. The Gold Dust Corp., makers of Fairy Soap, appeals to an elf-loving public with the query: "Have You a Little Fairy in Your Home?" Solid qualities of comfort, scents of the Orient (Cashmere Bouquet), are stressed by Colgate...
Sales. By merging, the Colgate and Palmolive-Peet companies pool sales officially estimated in 1927 at $100,000,000. But they have not yet threatened the supremacy of Procter and Gamble. This Cincinnati house did a business last year of $191,776,978, remains the largest soap producer in the U. S., a triumph for 99 44/100% purity...
...Colgates have directed and only Colgates have managed their perfume, dentrifice and soap company. Precedent, however, was broken last week when the office of vice president, director and general manager of Colgate & Co. was given to Wallace E. McCaw. Senior vice president and chairman of the administrative board of Procter & Gamble, he became last year Colgate's purchasing agent. Gilbert Colgate is chairman of the board, Gilbert Colgate Jr. secretary and vice president in charge of purchasing, Robert Bangs Colgate director and vice president in charge of production and development...
Five thousand employes of Procter & Gamble Co. went to Music Hall, in Cincinnati, there to attend the annual celebration attendant upon the distribution of profit-sharing dividend checks. The sum of $700,501, reputedly the largest ever given to employes by any company, was divided. The 5,000 Cincinnatians received half; Ivory Soap workers in Macon, Ga., Manhattan, Chicago & Kansas City, Mo., got the rest...
...Cleveland, (which in 1913 organized a federation for charity and philanthropy generally regarded as the beginning of the modern Community Chest movement), Denver, Detroit and elsewhere they work with eminent success. Cincinnati's Community Chest, organized as such in 1915, and greatly aided by the donations of Colonel Procter, is one of the oldest and most flourishing...