Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hill's High, Proud of its 1931 showing was American Tobacco last week. Despite Depression its earnings reached a new high: $46,189,000 against $43,294,000 in 1930. "You will, I am sure," said President George Washington Hill to shareholders, "be pleased to know that the year 1931 has witnessed a still further increase in our percentage of the total cigaret business of the United States." In Federal taxes alone last year American Tobacco paid $3.50 for every $1 it earned. Wages were maintained and the total number of employes increased...
Thomas Nast was no soldier in the Civil War, but as a cartoonist he threw himself into it with the same gusto he gave every fight. The South was a nation of tobacco-chewing slave whippers. Lincoln was his saint. Grant his personal hero. In 1862 Fletcher Harper hired him for Harper's Weekly at a good salary. From that day Harper's and Nast were an unbeatable team, the most influential artist, the most influential magazine in the country. When they separated in 1886 Harper's lost its circulation, and Nast, though he tried to start a paper...
Pennsylvania's Wharton School graduated William Samuel Paley with a B. S. in economics in 1922. His father took him into the family cigar business. Bill Paley knew something about Congress Cigar Co. and about cigars. As a boy he had watched girls on high stools rolling rough tobacco into Java wrappers, shaping them, cutting off the ends. At 18, just out of the University of Chicago, where he spent one year, he had gone into his father's Philadelphia factory, had broken up a strike by taking these girls out to lunch. Still, he did not think...
...comprehensive review of 1931 earnings, based on 900 reports, was issued by National City Bank. It found them off 52.9% from 1930, 72% from 1929. Deficits were reported by 39% of the companies. Chain stores, tobacco and shoe companies fared better than in 1930. Total earnings were a return of only 3.3% on net value...
...plays amusing, but he usually manages to think up a fairly entertaining story to go with them. This time it is about a scapegrace adventurer (Robert Montgomery) and the admiral's daughter (Madge Evans), whom he marries after meeting her in the store where he is a tobacco salesman. To arrange a felicitous denouement, Lonsdale has his hero write a play which, if it is anything like Lovers Courageous, is skilful, insignificant, likeable. Good shot: Montgomery and Evans eating their dinner-a steak, which Montgomery particularly enjoys because he thinks he has successfully concealed the fact that...