Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
While makers of Camels, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Old Golds, by means of well-organized advertising campaigns induce customers to demand their brands, Union Tobacco with very little advertising induces cigar store clerks to push its chief cigaret brand, Three Kings (first called Three Castles...
...68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing that the Government should set up a loan fund and a farm board to administer it. He has been unwilling that the U. S. should engage to administer the equalization fee, which he construes as involving price-fixing and as putting...
...actual money loss from heart disease during the average lifetime is $21,000,000,000 for the U. S.; the loss from tuberculosis $27,000,000,000.-Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity are bad only...