Word: kroh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...