Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan Christian Advocate, denouncing the methods by which the tobacco trust is coining the blood of babies into dividends, says, 'The trust has overstepped itself in its greed.' The Advocate will find in the ranks of its allies thousands who are decidedly against baby-killing."?Bulletin of The Methodist Board of Morals...
Readers of metropolitan newspapers last week observed a new and particularly acrimonious development in the current advertising disagreement between tobacco & sugar, cigarets & candies, Lucky Strikes & Sweets. Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been...
...that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business indeed to urge cigarets upon the youth of the nation...
...devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit or none at all." Should this 11? policy be followed at all Schulte stores it might well be imitated by the United Cigar Stores (allied with Schulte through the Union & United Tobacco Corp.). President Schulte blamed the A & P stores for the general price cutting situation...
...selling last week at around 24. The 1928 earnings were $3.96 a share compared to $4.91 in 1927. Angry, Mr. Schulte threatened to put lunch counters and "novelty" merchandise in his stores, thus (like United Cigar with its Happiness Candy alliance), to alleviate cigaret competition by adding non-tobacco merchandise...