Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rested and refreshed, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King returned to Ottawa. His journey into the U.S. had been no gadabout vacation. In 1,770 miles and seven days, the Prime Minister had done...
...ambitious young man named Alfred Emanuel Lyon went to work selling cigarets to stores on Manhattan's lower East Side. In the first three days he failed to sell a pack; every sales talk got the same answer: "Schicken." Just in time, a friend stopped Lyon from chucking the whole business. "Schicken," said he, did not mean "no," as Lyon had thought; it meant "send them...
Last week, Al Lyon, at 59, got ready to move into the biggest selling job of his life, the $100,000-a-year presidency of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. But he has little to sell. He cracked: "I take over April Fools...
When he takes over, Philip Morris' president, shy, lanky O. H. Chalkley, moves into the new job of board chairman. Since 1936, when they got the job of running Philip Morris, Chalkley & Lyon have been one of the smoothest management blends in the tobacco business. Chalkley keeps his eye on tobacco buying. Al Lyon does the selling. His first job was to turn Philip Morris from a "class" cigaret which sold only 3,800,000,000 a year into a popular brand...
Philip Morris soon took Old Gold's place in the Big Four. By 1943, Al Lyon had boosted sales to 29 billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...