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General Motors replaced Procter & Gamble as the nation's biggest advertiser in magazines, farm periodicals, network television and Sunday newspaper supplements in 1960, according to an Advertising Age survey...
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Manufacturers who use the bean were grumbling about the higher prices, now 13% above the November level. Procter & Gamble, followed by a host of other companies, raised wholesale prices of bulk shortening by 1? per Ib. Kraft Foods warned that it might have to increase the price on a pound of margarine by a penny or so when its present supply of soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans...
Third-quarter earnings of Consolidated Foods Corp. soared 13% to 50? per share v. 44? last year. Spurred by what Chairman Neil McElroy called "the rather exceptional progress" being made by Procter & Gamble's Duncan Hines cake-mix sales, P. & G.'s estimated third-quarter sales and earnings were going along at about last year's 5% growth rate...
...that Suburbia often shines with the kind of topnotch talent that makes troubled big-city fathers wince with envy. In Kansas City's suburban Prairie Village, for example, the $1-a-year mayor is a lawyer with a growing practice, the president of the city council is a Procter & Gamble Co. division manager and the head of the village planning commission is assistant to the president of a manufacturing firm. In Philadelphia's suburban Swarthmore, the town council includes a Philadelphia banker, a Du Pont engineer, the president of a pipeline company and a retired executive of Swarthmore...