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Word: procters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday. To Mrs. Procter's. Browning, there. He was sleepy. In telling a story would break off, forgetting what he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alive Enough | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Ballet. This study was too frank to be voluptuous. Squeamish persons felt as if they had opened the wrong door. But Eileen, a seated girl in a chemise, thrilled everyone with its pliancy of shoulders, arms, tapering hands. A soft sidewise fall of light allowed Miss Dod Procter the use of tremulous chiaroscuro. She is an adept in the nuances of reflected light, a familiar phase of architectural rendering, an annoying technical problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrills & Dales | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Procter & Gamble (floating purists): $15,579,335 (for fiscal year ending June 30) as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Colgate-Palmolive-Peet | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Colgate-Palmolive-Peet | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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