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Present great competitors are: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (W. N. Reynolds, Chairman; Bowman Gray, President), which makes Camels ("I'd walk a mile"), Prince Albert, etc.; Liggett & Myers (C. C. Dula, President)?Fatimas ("What a whale of a difference just a few cents make"), Piedmonts, Chesterfields ("They Satisfy"), Masterpiece Smoking; P. Lorillard Co. (B. L. Belt, President)?Murads, Helmars, Deities, Moguls, Between the Acts; Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. (R. M. Ellis, President)?Philip Morris, Marlboro, English Oval. This last concern is affiliated with the American Tobacco Products Co. (T. B. Yuille, President), which controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tobacco | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...great many people in the U. S. know Liggett's Drug Store. Enticing the eye (as any good drug store should) with its walls of water-clear glass, its ranked bottles of yellow and orange and blue, its showcases piled with new brushes, sponges, utensils of vanity, the mingled sight of prophylactics, vanilla ice cream sodas, popular face powders, this Liggett's establishment is repeated in dozens of U. S. cities, always neat, always glittering, always the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Liggett's | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

There is only one Liggett's, but it is iterated 300 times in the U. S., 40 times in Canada, 700 times in England.* Recently the Liggett Co. began a campaign of extension on the Pacific Coast. In Los Angeles it bought four stores of the Kress Drug Co.; in Oakland five of the Bowman Co.; in Glendale another thriving shop. In Seattle it began to negotiate for the ten Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Liggett's | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

Missives on colored paper, dispersing scents from Houbigant and Liggett & Meyers, began to arrive in the office of the Crimson. What was the satisfaction of the editors to discover that they were witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Wit | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...some $12,000,000 of this amount to be spent by China for educational purposes. The balance is now disposed in similar manner. *Tennessee was the only state carried by Harding in 1920 which Coolidge did not carry in 1924. Coolidge, however, carried Kentucky, which Harding lost. *Louis Kroh Liggett is an able, self-made man. At 14 he was working for a firm of dry-goods brokers. At 27 he was selling a line of druggists' goods. Conceiving the idea of cooperative buying and manufacturing, he induced 40 druggists to put $4,000 each in the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

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