It sure looks like there are a lot of BEAM machines in that list as well as the final gasps of long time wringer washer makers who faced the automatic tsunami earlier, like right after WWII, and knew they were doomed; it was just a matter of time. You wonder at the management questions & decisions. Was there capital to re-engineer factories? Was it worth it to try to invent an automatic? Most factories had been used for war production. If you look at the ads for household products before WWII and after, you will see a great drop off in brands. This was not always a case of companies dying but, very often, companies who found it more profitable to continue with defense industry work, joining the great Military-Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned about.
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Yeow, that old Proctor & Gamble logo w/ the man in the moon & stars in front of him is in the ad, too!!!!
-- Dave
Yeow, that old Proctor & Gamble logo w/ the man in the moon & stars in front of him is in the ad, too!!!!
-- Dave
I remember something about the 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies. I don't know if the 13 colonies are still being taught in school.
The Logo Controversy from Wikipedia
Logo controversy
Former P&G logoP&G's former logo originated in 1851 as a crude cross that barge workers on the Ohio River painted on cases of P&G star candles to identify them. P&G later changed this symbol into a trademark that showed a man in the moon overlooking 13 stars, said to commemorate the original 13 colonies.[30]
The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when rumors spread that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol. The accusation was based on a particular passage in the Bible, specifically Revelation 12:1, which states: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars." P&G's logo consisted of a man's face on the moon surrounded by 13 stars, and some claimed that the logo was a mockery of the heavenly symbol alluded to in the aforementioned verse, thus construing the logo to be satanic. Where the flowing beard meets the surrounding circle, three curls were said to be a mirror image of the number 666, or the reflected number of the beast. At the top and bottom, the hair curls in on itself, and was said to be the two horns like those of a ram that represented the false prophet.
These interpretations have been denied by company officials, and no evidence linking the company to the Church of Satan or any other occult organization has ever been presented. The company unsuccessfully sued Amway from 1995 to 2003 over rumors forwarded through a company voicemail system in 1995. In 2007 the company successfully sued individual Amway distributors for reviving and propagating the false rumors.[31]
The moon-and-stars logo was discontinued in 1985 as a result of the controversy
Logo controversy
Former P&G logoP&G's former logo originated in 1851 as a crude cross that barge workers on the Ohio River painted on cases of P&G star candles to identify them. P&G later changed this symbol into a trademark that showed a man in the moon overlooking 13 stars, said to commemorate the original 13 colonies.[30]
The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when rumors spread that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol. The accusation was based on a particular passage in the Bible, specifically Revelation 12:1, which states: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars." P&G's logo consisted of a man's face on the moon surrounded by 13 stars, and some claimed that the logo was a mockery of the heavenly symbol alluded to in the aforementioned verse, thus construing the logo to be satanic. Where the flowing beard meets the surrounding circle, three curls were said to be a mirror image of the number 666, or the reflected number of the beast. At the top and bottom, the hair curls in on itself, and was said to be the two horns like those of a ram that represented the false prophet.
These interpretations have been denied by company officials, and no evidence linking the company to the Church of Satan or any other occult organization has ever been presented. The company unsuccessfully sued Amway from 1995 to 2003 over rumors forwarded through a company voicemail system in 1995. In 2007 the company successfully sued individual Amway distributors for reviving and propagating the false rumors.[31]
The moon-and-stars logo was discontinued in 1985 as a result of the controversy
