Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makers of 15?-a-pack cigarets last week did what they had been expected to do for a long time-slashed prices. Acting in concert as they always do, the Big Four -American Tobacco (Lucky Strike), Reynolds Tobacco (Camel), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield), Lorillard (Old Gold)-dropped the wholesale price from $6.85 a thousand to $6. Though no one ever knows what the Big Four will do, few people expected the cut to be so deep, for a year and a half ago the price had been upped, presumably because of Cellophane wrappings, from $6.40 a thousand...
...Four's move was a counterattack to stop the forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five...
Traders who have been short of Big Four stocks ever since the 10-centers started to boom hurried to cover last week as soon as the news was out. All tobacco shares shot up. Wall Street had suddenly remembered that each of the Big Four but Lorillard, whose Old Golds were still in the promotional stage, was able to make good profits in 1928 and most of 1929 with prices at the present level-$6 a thousand...
...boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great deal of dirt, tomatoes and paprikas frying in oil, sardines roasting over charcoal fires, garlic, overripe figs, grapemust. tar and pitch from the boats, cheap Virginia tobacco, richly overflowing gutters, and fishing nets hung out to dry. And over and above all, like a dominating undertone, the salt freshness...
...fourth time in ten years, Manager Ballinger, who first met Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson (alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) in Dunhill's London shop, had set the Law on his slick little customer. As of yore, Mike's craving for Royal Yacht pipe tobacco, at $10 per lb., had gotten him in trouble. He simply cannot keep a.way from Dunhill's and its fragrant mixture, which was first recommended to him, he claims, by his royal friend "David" (Prince of Wales...