Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside, 10˘ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...
Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
...general frankness a wide range is covered. Eastman Kodak used to report only earnings, now reveals depreciation charges but not sales. The exact nature of Allied Chemical's huge investment account is hidden in the phrase "U. S. Government and other marketable securities." Reynolds Tobacco has described its investment in its own stock as "investment in noncompetitive companies." The railroads, because of the prescribed I. C. . accounting system, are models of honesty. Such leading companies as General Motors and U. S. Steel give enough data for anyone except a super-statistician. While some companies may discontinue reporting sales, businessmen...
...pleasant to Mr. Hill was a decision last .week which granted Richard Reid Rogers a temporary injunction against further bonus payments by American Tobacco to its officers. Attorney Rogers protested against the American bonus system last March soon after it became known that the company sold employes 56,000 shares of stock at $25 when its market value was $112. President Hill received 13,440 shares, equivalent to a $1,200,000 bonus. Few other shareholders have shown any desire to protest, feeling Mr. Hill well deserves to proceed as he sees fit. Federal Judge Francis Caffey, in giving...
...France, the motherland, Foundling Marie Basilide lavished the love that her parents never stayed to receive. Motherland France did not reciprocate this love; the native peasant boys took it personally. From the boys Marie occasionally accepted small gifts-"a knife, a printed handkerchief, a ruler, or a tobacco pouch, but never a penny unless it had a hole...