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...Despite Depression its earnings reached a new high: $46,189,000 against $43,294,000 in 1930. "You will, I am sure," said President George Washington Hill to shareholders, "be pleased to know that the year 1931 has witnessed a still further increase in our percentage of the total cigaret business of the United States." In Federal taxes alone last year American Tobacco paid $3.50 for every $1 it earned. Wages were maintained and the total number of employes increased...
...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
...broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President Hoover, calling him "one of our wisest and most experienced public serv-ants." was sending him to London as U. S. Ambassador...
...credit must also be given to the cigaret itself, which (all brands) increased from about 47 billion cigarets produced in 1920 to nearly 120 billion in 1930. Since 1922 the Big Cigaret Three (American Tobacco, Reynolds, Liggett & Myers) have collectively and individually made every year a record year. From the Reynolds report cigaret vitality has apparently survived 1931 doldrums...
...Tobacco Co.), remained greatest tobacco earner. His 1930 earnings-$43,298,000-topped Reynolds by $9,000,000; and last month he said that the first ten months of 1931 had been more profitable than the corresponding months of 1930. Yet if cellophane wrapping be accepted as great 1931 cigaret milestone, Mr. Hill with about 20,000,000 advertising dollars played second fiddle to Mr. Williams with probably not more than $16,000,000. Which raised but did not answer speculation as to what Mr. Hill will do next...