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...LYON...
...launch Old Gold, breathed easier with Mac's death. Much of the tobacco industry laid Philip Morris' tremendous success primarily to the personalities of Rube and Mac. That Philip Morris had other assets was presently demonstrated. New President Chalkley and First Vice President Lyon increased Philip Morris sales and profits by a full...
Since Rube and Mac's personal touch was so vital in Philip Morris' start, there were understandable qualms when the team of Chalkley and Lyon succeeded them. But affable Salesman Lyon soon rivaled his predecessors in cajoling dealers and salesmen ("My name is Lyon but I'm no wild animal. . . ."), and President Chalkley spurred the whole company to fresh endeavor by encouraging initiative rather than following able Mac McKitterick's policy of being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country...
...PhiIip Morris' sales for 1937 were 7,500,000,000; Old Gold's, 7,900,000,000. No figures for this year are yet available but Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, has already concurred with Mr. Lyon's claim that P. M. now leads Old Gold...
Died. Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 75, mother of England's Queen Elizabeth; of heart disease; in London...