Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to encourage more telling of facts but many of the companies whose shares have been listed for some time have not complied even to (.he new custom of reporting quarterly? Most of the non-compilers report only once a year. Sales figures are reported monthly by chain stores. Cigaret companies do not give them. Standard Brands and Gold Dust do not, Borden Co. does. The biscuit companies report only profits while the rubbers give, their sales. Lambert, Drug and California Packing are among many of the miscellaneous concerns not giving the. figure...
...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...
Reported last week was February cigaret production, gauged by tax stamp figures. A loss of 1,155,738,000 cigarets from a year ago, or 15%, was shown...
...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...