Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days, food and tobacco are the two chief stimulants to well-considered syllables. A good meal provides the indispensable feeling of comfort; a cigar or a pipe prolongs the sensation of ease which, if not interrupted by an unseemly clatter of dishes, is provocative of talk and thought. And in college, the conversation can never be entirely of finances and finesses. Since the business of a student is culture, his shop talk necessarily is of the arts...
...American Tobacco Co. did remarkably well last year, according to its annual report last week. This company makes a horde of useful products?Lucky Strike (It's toasted"), Egyptian Straights, Herbert Tareyton, Johnny Walker, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Naturals, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal ("Ask Dad, he knows"), Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Serene, Old English Curve Cut, and many another. Their sales?billions of cigarets and tobacco packages?netted the company $22,238,919 last year. This meant, after preferred dividends were paid, $9.77 a share (par $50) on the $97,639,600 of common and common B stocks outstanding...
...American Tobacco Co. (Percival S. Hill, President) is by far the most potent of U. S. tobacco manufacturers. It was incorporated in 1904; dissolved as a trust...
Present great competitors are: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (W. N. Reynolds, Chairman; Bowman Gray, President), which makes Camels ("I'd walk a mile"), Prince Albert, etc.; Liggett & Myers (C. C. Dula, President)?Fatimas ("What a whale of a difference just a few cents make"), Piedmonts, Chesterfields ("They Satisfy"), Masterpiece Smoking; P. Lorillard Co. (B. L. Belt, President)?Murads, Helmars, Deities, Moguls, Between the Acts; Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. (R. M. Ellis, President)?Philip Morris, Marlboro, English Oval. This last concern is affiliated with the American Tobacco Products Co. (T. B. Yuille, President), which controls...
Cigarettes are banned from Kansas tobacco stores but there have been substituted a thousand varieties of little cigars, perhaps less harmful to youth. The agricultural plug, however, still abounds...