Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might say of the Yale man that he is wholesome. He smells of soap and water. When he wears a dinner jacket he gives the impression that he would be more comfortable in something less formal. He finds no particular need to defend himself so long as he beats Harvard and Princeton each year in football. He is content with the world as he finds it and is, in fact, quite normal...
When George Eastman first worked with cameras, they were cumbersome boxes "almost the size of a soap box." That was in 1878 when he was 24, a bank clerk at Rochester, N. Y. Without leaving his bank job, he applied his mechanical ingenuity to making cameras handy. He succeeded...
...years, only 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...
...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...
Married. Frederick R. Johnson, 19, Dartmouth college sophomore, son of the late Caleb E. Johnson, founder of the Palmolive Soap Co., of Evanston, Ill.; to Miss Lydia Davies, 19, of Louisville, Ky.; secretly a month ago at the Dartmouth college winter carnival...