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Word: axton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown paper package told smokers that they could not smoke Cellophane. In June arrived the fourth national 10? cigaret- Twenty Grand, also from Louisville. Its sales soon passed those of White Rolls and Paul Jones, ran the ten-centers percentage up to 15. Last week that percentage was 20. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. was making 18 million Twenty Grands a day, with unfilled orders piled high. Wings were rolling out of the machines at the rate of 50 million per day. White Rolls and Paul Jones were still selling well. These four brands had taken advantage of cheap tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IOC V. I5C | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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