Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penney's prohibitive fervor extends even to tobacco. He is one of the few U. S. employers who will discharge a helper for smoking a cigaret at his work...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
Florida still makes the most cigars, North Carolina the most cigarettes, snuff, pipe and chewing tobacco. North Carolina raises more raw tobacco than any State. (Virginia is the second-ranking State for raw tobacco and all products thereof...
Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...
Dividends. To stockholders of 450 corporations came extra dividends totaling $250,000,000. Notable were: General Motors Corp., $44,500,000; E. I. du Pont de Nemours, $13,452,000; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., $6,000,000; Standard Oil of California...