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...CORRECT IN NEXT ISSUE OF TIME A STATEMENT GROSSLY IN ERROR STOP IN REFERRING TO ACQUISITION OF KIRKMAN SOAP CO. BY COLGATE PALMOLIVE PEET YOUR ISSUE OF SEPT. 29 REFERS TO LATTER COMPANY AS A LEADER IN SOAP INDUSTRY STOP AS A MATTER OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND RECORD PROCTER AND GAMBLE MAKERS OF IVORY SOAP ARE THE LEADERS IN THE AMERICAN SOAP INDUSTRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Booming is Baltimore, third greatest U. S. seaport, where Procter & Gamble recently located their new $5,000,000 factory (TIME, June 16). Last week the birth of a promising infant, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baltimore on the High Seas | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...late Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever, 1851-1925) who while he was developing Lever Bros. (Sunlight, Lux, Lifebuoy) also developed the Belgian Congo. Art lover, collector, philanthropist, Lord Leverhulme to the day of his death maintained that his was the largest soap company in the world. Today Procter & Gamble dispute the claim, which has never satisfactorily been settled. Earnings of Lever Bros. last year were approximately $26,000,000; earnings of P. & G., $19,148,943 (Colgate- Palmolive-Peet last year earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...land's largest producers of cotton seed oil in the U. S., buys or produces 50% of the total U. S. edible fat production, uses 90% of all whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...Procter & Gamble today operates seven factories: Ivorydale, Ohio; Dallas, Tex.; Macon, Ga.; Port Ivory, Staten Island, X. Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hamilton, Ontario; Kansas City, Kan. Largest factory is in Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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