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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Max R. Marston, national amateur golf champion in 1923, member of the American Walker Cup team, 1922-24; to be a general partner of Otis & Co., banking house, in charge of the Philadelphia office...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
...sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which, though independently owned, market Drug, Inc.'s Rexall products. For Drug Inc. is a holding company for the United Drug Co. of Louis Kroh Liggett, combined with the onetime Sterling Products Co. (Feb. 1928) into the present drug chain which serves 25% of the U. S. public plus many a Canadian and Englishman...
Last week Drug, Inc. announced the acquisition of Bristol-Myers Co. and 3-in-1 Oil Co. The Bristol-Myers addition put several more famed names in the Drug, Inc. family album. There is Sal Hepatica which clears the system promptly. There are Gastrogen Tablets, which relieve in digestion with none of the embarrassments of gas and rumbling. There is Ipana, the tooth paste you should use if you have Pink Tooth Brush. And, by a recent merger, there is Ingram 's, the cool shaving cream. Bristol-Myers showed a 1928 net income of $1,483,159 or with...
Comparable, in the drug field, to Stand ard Brands of General Foods in the food field. Drug, Inc. has back of it no J. P. Morgan, no E. F. Hutton. Its central name has been Louis K. Liggett, board chairman and founder of L. K. Liggett Co. and United Drug Co. Beginning his merchandising career as a traveling salesman for John Wanamaker, Mr. Liggett soon went into business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were...