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...issued from the Richmond, Va. factory of Larus & Brother Co. (William T. Reed, president) a small shipment of cigarets modestly named White Rolls. Their cheap package was without Cellophane, they were unheralded by advertising-but their price was 10? per package of 20. The selling organization which had made Edgeworth a widely-used pipe tobacco began pushing White Rolls and soon the orders were rolling in. News of this reached President Reuben M. Ellis of Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. and its Richmond subsidiary, Continental Tobacco Co. Continental had been having trouble distributing a cigaret called Paul Jones (price...
...Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents. He won his fight, remained independent, was making a neat profit out of Edgeworth when his 10? idea put him into the cigaret business in earnest...
Professor Schumpeter is probably the most eminent living Continental economist. His reputation, however, is largely confined to workers in the field of economics; like Menger, Boehm-Bawork, Walras, Pareto, Jevons, Edgeworth, to name a few, his best work has been devoted to pure theory of a type which must ever remain a closed book to all but trained students. He may not inaptly be described as an economist's economist. As such, however, his value to the department here at Harvard is difficult to overrate. Harvard has, particularly among "the old guard", a very respectable number of scholars whose contribution...
...want to say this: I sit here at a $535 GF all-steel desk that George C. Brainard, President the General Fireproofing Co. sent me. I glance at an Illinois watch that General Manager Bob Miller of The Illinois Watch Co. sent me. I smoke a pipe filled with Edgeworth that Advertising Manager R. W. Holloway, Larus & Brother Co. sent me and "tap-tap" on some Coupon Bond Eagle Brand writing paper that President Sam (Alias "Sidney Louis," TIME, July 13) Willson, sent me and with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...