Word: rothmans
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...grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa...
...research that turned the tide. Puttering in his factory laboratory, Rupert devised what he claims was the world's first king-size filter-tip cigarette. The new cigarette boosted Rembrandt sales so much that in 1953 Rupert bought out Rothman's South African operation. The following year he bought control of the British parent company...
...Using Rothman as a base, Rupert began setting up subsidiaries throughout the Commonwealth. His shrewdest move came in 1958. Capitalizing on a peculiar stock arrangement in London's venerable Carreras Tobacco Co. (Craven A), he won control of the company for only $4,500,000, quickly sold off antiquated factories for $15 million to finance a modernization program...
...part of a lively half time show, Bill Rothman, a Gargoyle staff member, made a speech in which he tried to sound like President Kennedy and during which he broke a Phillips House chair...
...uncut bolts of flags, generally the small, nonceremonial kind, are retailing for about 20? a yard. Port-au-Prince cloth merchants alone have already sold the equivalent of more than 1,000,000 Old Glories. Dealer Pierre Assad, who bought the flag material from Manhattan's Philip Rothman at 12? a yard, also has bolts and bolts of Hungarian and Polish cloth, but says the U.S. flag "is beating the hell out of the Communist material...