Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Try. The U. S. business of this then minute English concern had been taken over by Tobacco Products Corp. in 1919. In 1923 Rube Ellis was put in charge of its three brands-English Ovals, Oxford Blues and Cambridge-the first a blend and the others Turkish. Mr. Ellis promptly launched Marlboro, a 20? cigaret which, with the benefit of an ivory tip, has sold a solid 500,000,000 a year since. Then he lured McKitterick back from a seven-year vacation in Europe and the two quietly began buying Philip Morris stock. In 1931 they had control...
Rube Ellis dropped dead that same year and Mac became president. By 1936 when he, too, dropped dead, Philip Morris English Blend had enjoyed gross sales of $21,000,000 - about 3,800,000,000 cigarets. This was a puny total compared with some 35,000,000,000 each sold by Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields. But it was more than half the 5,300,000,000 of Old Gold. Presumably Lorillard Co. executives, who in 1926 had spent $15,000,000 to launch Old Gold, breathed easier with Mac's death. Much of the tobacco industry laid Philip Morris...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...
...eradicated. So far as Biographer Ludwig can see, the only remaining flaw in Roosevelt is a streak of Dutch stubbornness, and even that, he thinks, may be "Nature's compensation against his amiability." Even in tiny details he can find no dissonances in Roosevelt's harmonious blend of thought and action. "It is no accident," he declares, attesting Roosevelt's genuine sense of humor, "that this man should like scrambled eggs as a light dish, and detest the clayeyness and heaviness of bananas...
...long as we remain healthy and alive . . . insensitiveness is the one cardinal sin." Still alive 29 years later, while continuing to think each year his last, Llewelyn Powys has succeeded in writing a half-dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three of his ten books-Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God-among...