Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Camel-Lucky. Readers of U. S. cigaret advertising were last week startled to find one great tobacco company virtually calling another a liar. Under the heading of Turning the light of Truth on false and misleading statements, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, scolded George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co., makers of Lucky Strikes, which claims that a special toasting process removes from cigaret tobacco its harmful irritants and corrosive acrids...
Throughout the country there are 47 Better Business Bureaus. Sometimes they appeal to the national one for aid, sometimes matters are referred by the national to them. From the national bureau have emanated many broadsides against malpractices, including recently an attack against the advertising of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes") and American Cigar Co. (Cremo...
...forecasting future trends the estimate is made that by 1939 cigaret consumption will reach the staggering total of at least 202,000,000,000 compared with 120,000,000,000 in 1929, an increase of 69.7%. . . . The people of the United States spent about $1,670,000,000 for tobacco products in 1928, and the expenditure for 1929 is estimated to have exceeded $1,750,000,000. These figures represent over 4% of our total retail expenditures and about 2% of our total money income. The per capita expenditure ... is now running at the rate of about...
...American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...
Porto Rican-American Tobacco Co. El Toro cigarets are about twice the standard length, sold in packages of ten. Porto Rican-American Tobacco is said to be considering entering the U. S. market on a large scale with standard-sized El Toros in standard packages of 20. Porto Rican also makes cigars, including Portina, Ricoro and El Toro (5?). Sales of the latter in the U.S. were up 110% in January while total sales gained 50% according to President Louis Toro. Porto Rican also controls Congress Cigar (La Palina) and Wiatt & Bond (Blackstone, Quincy...