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Schulte, United Cigar, Liggett and most small dealers joined in the price-upping, hoped that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. would see fit to follow. Tobacco men believed that the move had at least the tacit approval of Mr. Hill who, believing he has the 10-centers licked, is reported to be pondering a boost in the wholesale price...
...keep up his business during holidays, recesses and at night, found his daughter engaged to be married. A violinist was glad to have had the $3 a day fee during the winter, but his chances of summer engagements had been ruined. A butcher had lost many customers. A Liggett traffic manager had somehow managed his work at night and in the early mornings. A book agent was sorry to have missed his annual trip to Florida. Judge Woolsey smilingly suggested the jury form an alumni association...
...beginning (1928) Drug Inc. was a simple two-way union between a curiously assorted couple that had one thing in common: each earned about $6,000,000 a year. The groom was Louis Kroh Liggett's United Drug Co. The business of United Drug was and is to manufacture drugs and other drug store items for sale exclusively by its own retailers, in chief 10,000-odd Rexall Drug Stores. While United Drug's original business was manufacturing not retailing, some of its Rexall dealers had from time to time decided to retire from business and Mr. Liggett...
...Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United Drug's manufactures could not be distributed by Sterling-they were for sale exclusively by Rexall stores. Therefore the two spouses could beget no common offspring. Yet they at once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug...
...better than ever. Last week's decision meant but one thing: that mutual support was no longer considered as great an asset as independence. To begin with, United Drug's chain-store profits have long since vanished , principally because of the effect of depression on Louis K. Liggett Co., now in receivership (TIME, April 10). From the standpoint of supplying cash for Drug Inc.'s dividends, one of the biggest members of the team was not supplying any support whatever. Second point was that the support had never proved to be so worthwhile or so possible...