Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, shiver my timbers! The Lucky Strike ad appearing on the back of last week's TIME (Sept. 7), I mean...
...York dairymen staged a milk strike in 1933. Following it, the State passed laws regulating wholesale and retail prices of milk, made it a criminal offense for a distributor to buy or a retailer to sell milk below prices set by the Agricultural Commissioner. Under these regulations wholesale milk prices varied according to the use the milk was put to. Drinking milk was in one class, brought $2.45 per cwt.* Milk to be made into ice cream, butter, cheese brought from $1.20 to $1.90. On the average, after deductions for freight and handling many a farmer netted only about...
...drought were a pair of brothers named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their New York Milk Producers Federation. They claim the support of 40,000 more...
Cried younger Brother Felix Piseck at Delhi: "I'm the last man in this crowd who wants a strike, but if we can't get rid of the classified plan any other way, we must keep our milk at home." There was hearty applause...
Selling cheap and advertising dear is the standard formula for making big money out of cigarets. The big Three-Camel, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike-wholesale for $6.10 per 1,000, of which $3 is Federal tax. Because they cannot afford to lose their mass markets they must pour many more millions into advertising than less popular brands. And because each of them sells upwards of 30 billion cigarets a year, they can afford...