Word: axton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Four's move was a counterattack to stop the forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five...
Revenge. Most colorful of the 10?-cigaret men are President Reed of Larus & Brother (White Rolls) and Woodford Fitch Axton, burly president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. (Twenty Grand). Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents...
...Woodford Axton was selling groceries around eastern Kentucky when, in 1899, a debtor paid him in tobacco-preparing machinery. The debt was $60. Salesman Axton decided to sell tobacco instead of food, began peddling his product from town to town. Soon the trust was after him, too, giving away tobacco to his customers when he refused to sell out. Big and hearty, "Wood"' Axton had enough friends to stay in business. He formed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. with a partner, George H. Fisher, now dead. They moved from Owensboro to Louisville and began selling smoking and chewing tobaccos throughout...
...Axton bought the formula for Menthol-Cooled Spuds from its inventor, Lloyd F. ("Spud'') Hughes. Hughes and his associates got $90,000, but Spuds brought much more to ''Wood'' Axton. He launched an advertising campaign, which has grown with Spud sales. Last year Axton-Fisher spent $550,000 advertising Spuds, made a net profit of $605,000. This year the profit has jumped month by month was $56,000 in July, $123,000 in August, $238,000 in September. Last week Axton-Fisher stock rose 8¼ points to 56¼ while other tobacco...
...strength of his admiration for Theodore Roosevelt "Wood" Axton ran for Mayor of Louisville in 1913 as a Bull Moose. Friends still maintain he won the election. He has put his money in farm lands where he raises thoroughbred cattle and horses. It was his love of horses that made him buy the name Twenty Grand several years...