Word: cigaret
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...Bradford, Pa., Mrs. Bernice Case asked her husband for a cigaret. When he refused, she stabbed him with a butcher knife, had him taken to a hospital...
American Tobacco Co. handles about one-third of the cigaret and smoking tobacco, about one-fourth of the plug tobacco sold in the U. S. Among its many familiar brands are Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike cigarets, Bull Durham and Half and Half smoking tobaccos. Sales last year totaled some $200,000,000. The advertising appropriation on Lucky Strikes alone was estimated at $12,300,000. As the largest fragment of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Tobacco Trust, which the government dissolved in 1911, American Tobacco Co. occupies in its field somewhat the position held by Standard...
...Trade Commission announced a victory. A certain tobacco company, which the Commission was careful not to name, had agreed to "cease and desist forever" from allegedly unfair methods of competition. The Commission objected particularly to the testimonials in this company's advertising and to its advertising advocacy of cigarets as an aid to slenderness. "Advertising matter [of this company]," reported the Commission, ". . . contained a testimonial or indorsement purporting to be that of certain actresses in a musical show who were credited with the statement to the effect that through the use of respondents' cigarets, 'That...
...conceive their companies' advertising campaigns, but no usual president is George Washington Hill of American Tobacco. The Reach for a Lucky idea came to him, he says, when he chanced to see a stout woman eating a sweet while next to her was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. During the height of the anti-sweet controversy he maintained that his campaign was really helping candy sales by focussing so many millions of minds on the subject of candy. Energetic, strong minded, Mr. Hill personally supervises many branches of his business, even to passing upon the program...
Like many another, Architect Lynn suspected a match or cigaret butt had been carelessly thrown into inflammable oils, paints, papers. Still incoherent from inhaled fumes. Artist Moberly babbled that he did not smoke cigarets, only cigars, that, in fact, he did not smoke at all. Later he admitted that he had had "a couple of drinks" in the afternoon, had fallen asleep over his desk in the storage room. With him, he said, was a man named Sam Hall who had been reading a newspaper. When he awoke. Hall was fighting the fire...