Word: liggett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the examples of control were old stuff. It would surprise few that U.S. aluminum-producing facilities were completely dominated by Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and-Henry Kaiser's Permanente Metals; that the Big Four tobacco companies-American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, P. Lorillard-owned 87.8% of all the industry's manufacturing facilities; that Armour and Swift controlled 54.7% of U.S. meat-packing capital assets...
...King" tells it, in a lively stylistic blend of Baron Munchausen and Dan Turner, Private Eye, the Harvard job was really an accident. He had come to Boston to knock over a Liggett drug store, but after casing the joint he vetoed...
...Three were still growing. American Tobacco Co.'s Lucky Strikes last year chalked up a record $819,631,122 in sales, and stayed in first place. But its increase in business (7.2%) was less than R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s Camels (15.5%) and Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield (10.6%). The only major company to suffer a drop was Philip Morris, whose sales slumped...
...derby has been assumed by a mysterious foreign trio, reported by some to be the same men who broke the jaywalking rule in front of the Coop last week. These three desperate characters have left a trail of broken banks and stacked decks after only a fortnight of gaming. Liggett N. Myers '50, consistent loser to the shadowy group, blamed his setbacks on the constant ape-like chatter and periscope eyes of the lanky ensemble...
Times Square lay in its nervous twilight of night and neon glow. The rubberneckers, the readers of the Daily Racing Form, the Liggett Romeos and the double-feature devotees opened a grudging path down 44th Street. From the cavalcade of tinny taxis and glossy limousines poured Broadway's first-nighters, their faces as rosy and bland as cherries in a Manhattan...