Word: liggett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boosted sales to 29 billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...
Thus last week a dog's death came to Arthur Kasherman, 43, publisher of an unsavory Minneapolis one-man tabloid, the Public Press. He died as he said he would: "Just like they got Guilford and Liggett." In 1934 gunfire from a passing automobile had brought down another Minneapolis publisher, Howard Guilford, who circulated two scandal sheets, the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet; and, a year later, Walter Liggett, publisher of the Midwest American, got his. Liggett, a former editor of Plain Talk (a magazine), and Guilford, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman, once had some legitimacy as journalists. Kasherman...
Police confessed themselves as baffled by Kasherman's murder as by Guilford's and Liggett's, still officially listed as unsolved. Minneapolis' legitimate newspapers cluck-clucked properly over Kasherman's death, hoped that the latest killing would do what police and city officials had failed to do: put a stop to blackmail parading as journalism...
...timid soul describes lurking outside Liggett's to waylay friends and send them on forays into the interior. Other and bolder spirits relate tales of subtle ingenuity that do more striking credit to the Crimson name...
...filed no complaints against Liggett & Myers Co. (Chesterfields), which by & large confines its advertising to claims that "they satisfy...