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...Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...
Like Ecusta, other U. S. tissue manufacturers, such as Peter J. Schweitzer Inc. and Smith Paper, Inc., hope to break France's cigaret-paper monopoly. Ecusta jumped from scratch to No. 1 position in the U. S. because Mr. Straus was able to pour around $4,000,000 into it. Part of the capital came from his own well-lined purse, part from his two French companies (Société Nouvelle des Papeteries de Champagne and Papeteries R. Bollore...
...rest was from substantial credits from the Irving Trust Co. and whacking advances by the U. S. cigaret manufacturers, who put up $1,000,000 each. To them the advances were worthwhile as a hedge against possible wartime disruption of the French supply. But what interested the Chicago conference most last week was that Ecusta had made a short cut in technique, and (as Schweitzer and other tissuemen had done) made a new cash crop for farmers...
Until a few years ago linen rags were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their...
Last week in the close-mouthed tobacco business, best estimate was that since World War II began, domestic production of tissue had increased from 25% to 40% of the total bought by U. S. cigaret makers. With both Ecusta and Schweitzer about to double their plant capacity, by war's end the U. S. may have another complete new industry, reaching from farm to factory, with a manufacturers' gross of some $10,000,000 a year...