Word: lorillard
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Despite all the no smoking signs around the College, over a $1,000,000 of the endowment is in voting stock of tobacco companies like Philip Morris, P. Lorillard (Old Gold), and American Tobacco (Lucky Strike...
Some of the examples of control were old stuff. It would surprise few that U.S. aluminum-producing facilities were completely dominated by Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and-Henry Kaiser's Permanente Metals; that the Big Four tobacco companies-American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, R. J. Reynolds, P. Lorillard-owned 87.8% of all the industry's manufacturing facilities; that Armour and Swift controlled 54.7% of U.S. meat-packing capital assets...
Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
Died. Grenville Kane, 89, last surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...