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...night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president of Barker Tobacco (independent), and President Wood Fitch Axton of Louisville's famed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. Inc. (Spuds, Twenty Grand, Old Loyalty, White Mule...
...Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., maker of one of the four best-selling 20-for-10? brands (Twenty Grand), announced a net profit for 1932 of $1,416,952, more than double its 1931 profit...
...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...
...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...