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...million cigarets last year, has generally been able to maintain a retail price of 15? straight, or $7.50 per 1,000. Wholesaling at $6.85 per 1,000, Philip Morrises make the retailer well over 1? per package. On this advantage Philip Morris prospered until it hit a snag. Several States put into effect their own cigaret taxes. Retailers absorbed part of the State tax, reduced their margin of profit on Philip Morris...
...Women's Home Missionary Society. The memorial cited "indorsements"' of birth control by Methodist regional conferences, by other Protestant and Jewish bodies. It urged that Methodism, indorse "the principles of birth control legislation now pending in Congress." Sent to a committee the resolution quickly struck a snag. A subcommittee found it was "artfully drawn" in that "indorsement" was a misleading word for some birth control pronouncements mentioned in it. After killing this memorial the subcommittee set to work to draft its own views...
Trying for a comeback alter the worst season in ten years. Southern California ran into the efficient snag of Illinois' brilliant overhead game...
...much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John Wanamaker Jr. and William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. The young men slept all morning, went to parties in the evening, could not be brought together in one place in the afternoon. Aleman Saylor worked nearly four...
...Only snag in the course of the romance was struck when Mrs. Stull heard that marriages in Manhattan required three days' notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory...