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Word: liggett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most spectacular gain of all was scored by P. Lorillard's Kent, up 138% to 36 billion cigarettes, just behind Winston. In the overall brand standings, Kent vaulted from tenth to fifth, removed Liggett & Myers' lagging non-filtered Chesterfield from the top five for the first time since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: They Like It | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Liggett & Myers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Red & the Black | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly, Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams of tar in 1955; two years later, L & M showed almost a 70% increase in nicotine, more than a 33% increase in tar. "Amazingly," noted the committee, "it then announced 'the miracle of the modern miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIGARETTES: Unfiltered Filters? | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...dozen new filter brands have been put on the market in the past five years, and almost every one has moved up fast in the sales race. Reynolds' Winston, fifth-ranked in 1955, last year took over fourth place from Chesterfield. (Regular and king sizes are classified separately.) Liggett & Myers' L&M climbed from ninth to seventh, and filtered Marlboro, which was launched in 1955, moved to eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Complete Recovery | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...fatties, who bought up dextrose supplies in the earnest hope that they had at last found the unfindable-a way to deflate abdominal tires without leaving themselves hungry. Dextrose, used in a few baby formulas and for intravenous feeding in hospitals, usually gathers dust on druggists' shelves. The Liggett chain (118 stores) may sell 400 Ibs. a month; after the LHJ fable, sales zoomed to 800 Ibs. a day. Other chains across the country reported the same sort of boom. And because the plain formula tastes so flat, there was a corresponding boost in sales of peppermint, vanilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crazy About Reducing | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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