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Rabelaisian, old Bartlett Arkell rounded off 50 years last week as first and only president of still-booming Beech-Nut Packing Co. Sadly he stepped up to chairman, and turned the active management over to his son, Clark. But no one expected this schoolboy's dream of a success to end here. There was still plenty of kick left...
Tiny green feathers delicately blurred the heavy black-purple branches of the Japanese fernleaf beech trees near the Executive Office. Tight green buds popped all over what Calvin Coolidge used to call "the south lot." One forsythia shrub, near the office, already sprayed yellow...
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...
Before his mike, Allen always chews nervously on a wad of gum; away from the studios, he substitutes a cud of cut-plug for his Beech-Nut. He regards chewing tobacco as a safer habit than cigaret smoking. "When you smoke cigarets," he points out, "you're likely to burn yourself to death; with chewing tobacco the worst thing you can do is drown a midget...
...production" had been ordered with money appropriated last year, that orders for another third had not been closed, that most of the rest were trainers which Army & Navy must have before they can use combat planes. Last week the Army ordered 850 more trainers (from Ryan Aeronautical Co., Beech Aircraft Corp., Vultee Aircraft, Inc.), placed its first big orders for combat aircraft out of 1940 appropriations. The orders: 277 heavy bombers from Boeing Aircraft Co., 410 pursuit interceptors from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Still unordered were most of the 25,674 Army & Navy planes for which Congress had appropriated since...