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...fastest selling cigaret last year was Chesterfield (Liggett & Myers) which sold 34.5 billion against 33.8 billion for Camel and 33 billion for Lucky Strike (TIME, Jan. 21). Last week Liggett & Myers reported 1934 earnings of $20,086,000, up more than $3,000,000 from 1933. Simultaneously the directors declared the usual extra dividend of $1 besides the regular quarterly dividend...
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...Horace, the automobile business that was sold for $146,000,000 in 1925. When he died in 1922, John Dodge cut off his son John Duval Dodge with $150 a month for eloping with his highschool sweetheart at 20. To daughter Isabel he left more. Educated at Detroit's Liggett School, she went into the Social Register in 1921 when she married a Manhattan broker named George Sloane. They were separated in 1928, divorced...
...Baruch's first coups was to buy control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan who was then forming his notorious Tobacco Trust. In 1901 he made a killing on the short side of Amalgamated Copper. Early in his career he was almost wiped out on the short side of American Sugar. In 1904 he got a commission of $1,000.000 for buying the Selby and Tacoma smelters for the Guggenheims. He added to his fortune by buying into the immensely successful Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. in 1909 shortly after it was founded. He made nearly half a million by selling...
Left. By Caleb Conley Dula. onetime president and board chairman of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., who died in December 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931): a net estate valued at $14,831,387; to his widow Mrs. Julia Q. Dula...