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Sales. By merging, the Colgate and Palmolive-Peet companies pool sales officially estimated in 1927 at $100,000,000. But they have not yet threatened the supremacy of Procter and Gamble. This Cincinnati house did a business last year of $191,776,978, remains the largest soap producer in the U. S., a triumph for 99 44/100% purity...
...personal attacks, Theodore Roosevelt the younger spoke at Rochester, N.Y., a speech he had learned by heart during previous anti-Smith campaigns. He elaborately explained that no man would question Governor Smith's personal integrity. Then he juxtaposed the Smith name with a sewer scandal, a gambling pool, a milk scandal, and with the oldtime sins of Tammany Hall...
...thousand doctors signed their names in the registration book of the American Medical Association in Minneapolis last week. The 79th annual get-together was in session; from all parts of the U. S. doctors had come to pool their problems and share their results. Minnesota's governor, the Hon. Theodore Christiansen, gave them hearty welcome, then the 15 scientific divisions went into action, 400 learned papers were presented and earnestly discussed...
...Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth $1,250,000, on Felstead in the Calcutta Sweepstake. A girl named Helm who works in a London brewery won $625,000 in the Stock Exchange Pool. A stock broker had held the ticket on Black Watch (worth $10,000) but had sold it to a customer...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...