Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before she became a cinema star, Madge Evans was a photographer's model. A cinema executive saw her pictured in an advertisement for Fairy Soap, got her a part in The Sign of the Cross. That was in 1914, when she was 5. Star of the picture was William Farnum. Madge Evans became the Shirley Temple of the silent cinema. When she was 10 her career, as such, was over...
Until last week the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the land was Ohio s Procter group of 17, assembled by the late Col William Cooper Procter (Ivory Soap) and Charles Bond (Two-Pants Suits) at a cost of $300,000. Last week the Procter chain fell into second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's plump, profitable North...
...time Abbott appointee, dumped a mass of evidence on campaign cash-collecting by jobholders into the lap of Attorney General Cummings. Keeping well out of the Democratic cleanup, Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg remarked: "As long as they run their own laundry, I see no reason to get soap in my eyes...
Another adv.--We want every Harvard man to use Noisette Shaving Cream, the "aristocrat" of all shaving soaps, with our compliments. Your box--a creamy, pasty soap becomes your...
...break even. The average blue whale produces about 100 barrels of oil worth around $1,000. World production rose from 1,300,000 bbl. in the 1928-29 season to 3,600,000 bbl. in the 1930-31 season. This was more than the world could use either in soap or in European margarine. So in 1931-32 most of the Antarctic companies declared a whaling holiday and production dropped to 775,000 bbl. In the season just closed production was some 2,400,000 barrels worth about $26,000,000. But some 1,800,000 bbl. still overhang...