Word: procters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infancy of the Age of Advertising was a day of great phrases. Lately advertisers and their copywriters have grown more subtle and sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...
...Procter and Gamble Co. wound up the Jollycos for some reason, probably because it knew that too little of a good thing is better than enough...
Another serious problem for the larger makers of industrial alcohol is the competition afforded their product by glycerin compounds for preventing frozen radiators. Glycerin is a by-product of soapmaking, and such large soapmakers as Lever Bros, and Procter & Gamble are strenuously seeking to market glycerin anti-freeze mixtures. The Commercial Solvents Co. and the United Carbide Co. also are perfecting competitive mixtures for the same purpose...
Another suit is pending before the Illinois Superior Court in which Colonel Procter is seeking to recover from Colonel Sprague half of what he spent in paying up the liabilities left over after the campaign - an amount which is supposed to be several times as large as that at issue in the present v suit...
...General Wood had been nominated and elected in 1920 matters might have been a great deal different. Colonel Sprague would probably be a Republican today, and Colonel Procter, when he was home from his post at the Court of St. James's, might have dined amicably at the home of Postmaster General Sprague...