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Meanwhile King-size cigarets multiplied like brands of beer in 1933. Hill lengthened another of his own lagging brands, Herbert Tareyton, watched its sales jump to 1,800,000,000 last year. Brown & Williamson's Wings adopted the new size, so did Spuds (Axton-Fisher), Beech-Nut (P. Lorillard), Dunhill (Philip Morris). Other makers thought up new names: Stratford (Fleming-Hall Co., Inc.), Cinclair (A. Ladis Tobacco Co.), Melowicks (Strand Tobacco Co.), etc. Out of 180,000,000,000 cigarets sold last year, the King size accounted for about...
...Playwright Behrman is one of the most adult living playwrights and his new seriocomedy tackles a grown-up theme-the fact that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged...
DEEP SOUNDINGS-Alan Cor by-C axton...
Died. Woodford Fitch ("Wood") Axton, 63, president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., largest independent tobacco company in the world, maker of Spuds, 10? cigarets (Twenty Grand) & smoking tobacco (White Mule, Old Loyalty); of heart disease; at Wildwood, near Skylight, Ky. A thoroughly enlightened capitalist, he limited his salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank...
...president of the sixth largest tobacco company in the U. S., Wood F. Axton is pre-eminently a buyer of raw tobacco, not a seller. As such, he might be expected to favor low leaf prices. But this far-seeing Kentuckian, who once was a grocery salesman, seized the opportunity to publicize his interest in a square deal for Kentucky tobacco farmers regardless of the consequences to him or his company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge...