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Brazil is the only source of carnauba wax. Last year exports totaled 13,500,000 Ib., more than half of which went to the U. S. Principal uses are: floor and furniture polish-Johnson & Son, A. S. Boyle Co.; shoe polish-Gold Dust (Shinola, 2-in-1, Bixbee), Whittemore, Griffin; auto polish-Simoniz, Du Pont...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...
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Together the Brothers Morrow have bought the 2-in-1 Polish Co. in Canada (now 2-in-1 Shinola Bixby Corp., subsidiary of Gold Dust), Christie Brown Co. ( Canadian cracker makers), Consolidated Bakeries (also Canadian), American Linseed Co.. Standard Milling Co. They had to fight for control of the last two, but as Elder Brother George remarked last week: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten...
...sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating to add Ball fruit jars and Crosse & Blackwell's good English jams, marmalades and other dainties. The Gold Dust Corp. stock is worth at current quotations...