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...canal employes to buy them drinks of colored water at 75? a drink, the cabaret girls were paid off for information they picked up on ship movements. Gough also got information from native labor sent to Panama through an agency his brother helped to run as part of Gough Bros. Enterprises...
...years huge Lever Bros. (Swan Spry, Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy, etc.) and huger Procter & Gamble (Ivory, Crisco, Oxydol, etc.) have slugged at each other in the nice-Nellie manner of the advertising campaign—with occasional forays that were not so nice, but not so noticeable to the layman, either. Now the battle has exploded in a big way: in Boston a Federal grand jury indicted Procter & Gamble for using the mails to defraud. By the terms of a 57-page, 40-count indictment this turns out to mean bribing various Lever Bros, employes with aliases like "Babe," "Red" and "Chick...
...Procter & Gamble and Colgate because a new spraying process Lever adopted in the late '20s turned out (in 1937) to be a patent infringement. About the same time, Lever enraged Procter & Gamble by bringing out Spry to compete with Procter & Gamble's long-established Crisco. Smart Lever Bros.—British-founded, now ambiguously owned by British Unilever's Dutch affiliate Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V., through a South African holding company—has always been famed for spotting and invading a good established consumer-goods field where there was room for competition. But the battle of shortening was really only...
Suits & Counter Suits. While Lever Bros, was still experimenting with its floating wonder (already dubbed "Swan" and being tested in key sales areas), Procter & Gamble, in 1940, came out with a "new Ivory" also made by a continuous process. In February 1941, Lever cracked down on the "new Ivory" in the Baltimore courts with a patent-infringement suit. Less than two months later P. & G. hit back with a Cincinnati plea for an injunction against the sales of Swan as an obvious and unfair imitation of Ivory...
...back. They are not likely to get Jimmy Cagney back. This picture is his last for a major studio. Following a Hollywood procedure that may become a trend, he has formed his own movie unit (Cagney Productions, Inc.), plans to produce his own pictures for United Artists release. Warner Bros, will miss him. For the last twelve years the cinema's most talented tough guy has been his studio's top money maker...