Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News commentator Hill...
Early this month President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...
Elsewhere, even in chain stores, smokers of the "Big Four" brands had to pay from 11? to 15? a package. Mr. Hill had not quite kept his promise-yet. He had cut the wholesale price of his Luckies from $6 per 1,000 (to which they were reduced from $6.85 last month) to $5.50 per 1,000. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price...
...present production rate American Tobacco on Luckies alone will make $46,000,000 less than last year, may earn no more than $3 a share toward its $5 worth of 1933 dividends. Last month American Tobacco gave up its usual $1 extra dividend and last week Mr. Hill, worried by stockholders' suits, renounced for the future the $380,000 he might have had as a management bonus. But what most worried Mr. Hill was 10? cigaret sales. Present estimated annual rate of production gives to two of the ten centers alone 20% of the total, makes the "Big Four...
...between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over Ty Ty went on digging for gold...