Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Indians were ready to outdo previous frenzies. Many brought ancient costumes, decked with beads, feathers, shells for their traditional dances. Others set up stands and sold native products to visitors. Through the crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...
...been with Lorillard since it became independent in 1911, a result of American Tobacco Co.'s dissolution as a trust. In 1925 Lorillard got a thorough shaking up and Belt for president. When he took hold he found the company had everything except a popular cheap cigaret. Beech-Nut, Lorillard's first venture into the blended field, had failed. American Tobacco Co. had its Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers its Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick-tempered, Ben Belt is still an excellent horseman, a better salesman. He decided Lorillard should have its Old Gold...
...Radio makes its own artists. Oldtime success stories seem slow and labored compared with the meteoric rise of moonfaced Morton Downey, who has earned $4,500 a week with his ballading ever since young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System used him to lure Camel's cigaret advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched her up for a sum appropriate to her size. Joe White ("The Silver...
...passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow the place to smithereens...
Sued for Divorce. Pauline Lord, actress (Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) ; by Owen Burtch Winters, Manhattan advertising man, originator of Camel Cigaret's Cellophane advertising campaign; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...