Word: chesterfields
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...ascent, which was described as one to prove that "man can fly," was scheduled to take place at 1:15 p.m., in celebration of the 'Poon's 75th anniversary. At about 1 p.m. Lampoon men, attired in top hats and Chesterfield coast, gathered in front of "that bastard chateau" with a brass band and began the ceremony...
Everyone knows Chesterfields, thanks to $8,000,000 a year spent on such slogans as "They Satisfy" and "ABC-Always Buy Chesterfield." But outsiders know little about the men at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. who make Chesterfields. In the closemouthed cigarette business, L. & M. is the tightest-lipped of all. Last week L. & M. got a new president who seemed just the right man for the job. He is Benjamin F. Few, 56, who has been vice president in charge of L. & M.'s advertising since 1934 and has managed to keep clam quiet all the time. He intends...
...Myers after graduating from Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1916, worked his way up through the cigarette factory into tobacco buying and sales, and ran L. & M.'s Philippine Islands operations for ten years before the war. His biggest job as president will be to pep up Chesterfield's sales. Last year Chesterfield sales dropped slightly from $67.5 million in 1949 to $66 million. With 18% of the cigarette market, v. 22.6% for Lucky Strike and 26.9% for Camel, Chesterfield is third in the industry...
...Third, Chesterfield (Liggett & Myers), down 2.2% to 66 billion...
...payoff question was: "What famous Englishman had this to say of Lord Chesterfield? 'This man, I thought, was a Lords'," Samuel Johnson," was the correct answer...