Word: liggett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William A. Blount, 61, executive vice president of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., Inc., was appointed president succeeding Benjamin F. Few, who is retiring under a mandatory retirement plan. Varsity center on the 1919 University of North Carolina football team, Blount joined Liggett & Myers in 1923, became superintendent of the Durham factory in 1925, a vice president in 1943. ¶ Hugh William Close Jr., 39, son-in-law and assistant to the late Elliott White Springs (TIME, Oct. 26), was elected president of the Springs Cotton Mills (1958 net sales: approximately $165 million). Close joined Springs Mills, Inc. as a sample...
...CARR LIGGETT...
...girls as a group are a bouncy crew, with Dulcie the bounciest, Fay (Abigail Liggett) and Nancy (Alexandra Hilford) lively enough, and Maisie (Margaretha Walk) not quite with it though she tries very hard. The boys--Robert Hatfield, David Kopelman, Norman Fox and Herbert Parsons--have a grand time mostly playing themselves and dancing with the girls; but on the whole they failed to impress...
Fourth Qtr. Total Total Total 1958 1958 1957 Allegheny Ludlum Steel $3.3 $5.8 $11.7 General Tire & Rubber 5.9 11.3 11.3 Scott Paper 6.2 22.0 21.6 Liggett & Myers 8.6 31.2 28.3 American...
...billion a year; Lorillard's stock went from 15⅛ to 89; Lorillard sales jumped from $203 million to close to $480 million in 1958; net income rose from $4,519,758 to an estimated $28.5 million; and Lorillard moved from a lagging sixth among companies to nudge Liggett & Myers for the No. 3 spot in U.S. tobacco sales...