Word: mentholated
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...Axton bought the formula for Menthol-Cooled Spuds from its inventor, Lloyd F. ("Spud'') Hughes. Hughes and his associates got $90,000, but Spuds brought much more to ''Wood'' Axton. He launched an advertising campaign, which has grown with Spud sales. Last year Axton-Fisher spent $550,000 advertising Spuds, made a net profit of $605,000. This year the profit has jumped month by month was $56,000 in July, $123,000 in August, $238,000 in September. Last week Axton-Fisher stock rose 8¼ points to 56¼ while other tobacco...
Puffing a menthol-cooled cigaret, Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, fourth son of Wilhelm II, sat in the Visitors' Gallery of the German Reichstag one day last week calmly enjoying a scene of such absolute bedlam, such screeching pandemonium that his smoking passed unchallenged by the ushers...
Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...