Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same evening, of Florence, daughter of potent, conservative Banker & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. Setting: the Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa Armour and Beatrice Kirk; Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus Franklin Swift (meats...
Many a puzzled British housewife waited anxiously last week for the world to blow to pieces. As these matrons sat in their comfortable homes, a quiet voice from the radio had told them that the universe was nothing but a bursting soap bubble. "It is easy to blow a soap bubble," said the voice, "but far less easy to keep it in existence more than a minute or two-after that it is apt to disappear. If hope I shall not startle you too much if I say . . . that the universe is like that . . . expanding-I might almost say exploding...
...components of a proposed billion-dollar bank which he had consented to head (see p. 29). But the Community Chest work throughout the land to which he had given his prestige and advice, was for the most part completed for the year. Thanks to Banker Case, William Cooper (Ivory Soap) Proctor and men like them, 360 community chests were flooding national headquarters with glad reports of some $80,000,000 collected...
...banker's endorsement, certifying to Business one's soundness as a leader, is worth much if it is unaccompanied by a substantial cash investment. This cash must not be too obvious too early, however, as in the 1920 case of Leonard Wood's Col. Proctor, the soap tycoon...
Resigned. William Cooper Procter, president of Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap), to become board chairman. New president: R. R. Deupree, formerly vice president...