Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Captain Cadek was quickly found guilty of accepting bribes, sentenced to from two to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. Captain Cadek sent out from his Cleveland cell for a sack of chewing tobacco, stoically remarked : "A good guy always gets kicked around...
...Road Hole," the 17th, with a 4 to Thomson's 5. On the 18th green, Thomson's second shot stopped rolling six inches from the pin. Ferrier's stopped 30 feet away. Ferrier nodded, conceded the kind of match that makes old Scotsmen smoke their own tobacco when they tell about...
...most tobacco companies, advertising is more important than tobacco. When P. Lorillard Co. put Old Golds, on the market in 1926, it floated a $15,060,000 bond issue solely to finance promotion. Camel advertising costs R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. some $10,000,000 annually. But during Depression, two oldtime tobacco men discovered another and a cheaper method of selling cigarets. They were Reuben Morris ("Rube") Ellis, long time president of Philip Morris & Co. and Leonard Burnham ("Mac") McKitterick. Their cigaret was Philip Morris English Blend, which is now crowding Old Gold for fourth place in the roster...
...rise of Philip Morris dates from 1931, when Messrs. Ellis and McKitterick, with some friends, got control of Philip Morris and Continental Tobacco Co. When they took stock of the business, they found themselves with various pipe tobaccos, expiring luxury cigarets and the two volume brands, Paul Jones (10?) and Marlboro (20?). Marlboro had always done well, was earning dividends for the whole company. But its 500,000,000-per-year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared...
...Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office boy in 1885 after graduation from Philadelphia's Girard College...