Word: chesterfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...
...makers of 15?-a-pack cigarets last week did what they had been expected to do for a long time-slashed prices. Acting in concert as they always do, the Big Four -American Tobacco (Lucky Strike), Reynolds Tobacco (Camel), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield), Lorillard (Old Gold)-dropped the wholesale price from $6.85 a thousand to $6. Though no one ever knows what the Big Four will do, few people expected the cut to be so deep, for a year and a half ago the price had been upped, presumably because of Cellophane wrappings, from $6.40 a thousand...
...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 U. S. cigarets. And added to the troubles of Messrs...
Ruth Etting, Boswell Sisters. Arthur Tracy with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra Chesterfield Cigarets...
...Field, British sporting weekly, organized a movement to seek the cause and cure of distemper, began soliciting funds in Britain, Canada and the U. S. Headed by the Duke of Portland, the Field Distemper Council was adorned by the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Mildmay of Flete and many another noble & sporting name. Dr. Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, pathologist, and Major George William Dunkin, veterinarian, were given charge of research. Now, after nearly a decade, the Council has felt justified in disbanding, placing the crown of unqualified success upon its work. Its final report is published...