Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers. For six days they peered and poked at florid displays of stickers, building material, motorbuses, soap. They were harangued with the eloquence of over 300 orators. When the pedagogs decamped they took from the 60th anniversary convention of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence impressions that will more or less affect each one of their charges, some 20,000,000 U. S. school children...
...have been without foundation, more definite was an announcement that the Reynolds-Hanes interests, which control Kraft-Phenix, and National City Co. had reached an agreement to form a great merger between Kraft-Phenix, Hershey Chocolate Co., and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet (TIME, Nov. 4). Although this cheese-candy-soap combine was even officially named "International Quality Products Corp.," National City Co. apparently withdrew after the market decline, leaving the Reynolds-Hanes group still in control of the largest U. S. package cheese company. Last week, a more logical purchaser was found in National Dairy Products Corp...
Millions of dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever. Strikingly in contrast to its rivals' advertisements have been those for Colgate which declared: ''Colgate's has never claimed to cure pyorrhea, to correct an acid condition of the mouth?things no toothpaste can do. Colgate does claim to clean teeth better...
...Nomentana. It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.* On the feast of St. Agnes last week, two of the most docile of the lambs of St. Agnes were carefully washed with finest soap, garlanded with flowers, trussed together with ribbons, laid in a grass-lined basket, carried to the Vatican...
...Lever Bros., English soap makers (Lux, Lifebuoy), control the company which owns the English whaler now at the ice pack...