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...have exactly the same sort of equipment as the other firm, and are also in a position to make cigaret tissue upon a moment's notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...were very much interested in reading the article on p. 59 of your April 13 issue, under the caption, "Monopoly Challenge," regarding the effort in the cigaret tissue field of Messrs. William and Louis Schweitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red, Purple & Yellow | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Durham. Ever since North Carolina's famed "bright yellow" tobacco had been discovered, by chance, in 1852, the pipe and chewing tobacco trade had been booming, and John R. Green had made his trade-mark world-famed.* It was Buck Duke who urged that the family go into the cigaret business, then undeveloped. They employed the first successful cigaret-making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with a capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Schweitzers know that at least one big stumbling block stands in the way of this development. All French merchants know and bank on the U. S. fondness for imported things. In the highly competitive U. S. cigaret field, it will take a daring company to buy cigaret paper from the Schweitzer's Elizabeth mill, although many buy from their French mill. For. should it become known that the paper of a leading brand was made in a new U. S. factory, it is easy to visualize the other brands proclaiming the fact that they use "only the finest imported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Monopoly Challenged | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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