Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years before, Charles A. Whelan and his brother George J. Whelan entered a partnership to sell tobacco at wholesale in Syracuse, N.Y. They had a genius for selling, and so it was not many years before they had built up the United Cigars Stores chain. This chain now numbers close to 3,000 retail stores. Last year they did an $85,000,000 business...
Last spring the problem of reducing competition was attacked by another method. The Union & United Tobacco Corporation was formed to manufacture tobacco products and to distribute them wholesale. But the purpose back of this incorporation, the panoramic intent, associates of Charles A. Whelan explained only last week...
Union & United Tobacco will make tobacco products and will distribute them wholesalees and to Schulte retail stores. The two retail chains own their common manufacturer-wholesaler (Union & United Tobacco). As retailers they continue separate. David A. Schulte and Charles A. Whelan remain at the head of corporations their selling geniuses created. There is no merger, just sensible cooperation...
English-speaking residents of Honolulu and adjacent Pacific centres lately marveled, puzzled, then chuckled over an advertisement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (evening: circulation, 16,000). On other pages were the conventional displays prescribed by U. S. copy-artists - tobacco broadsides, department store revelations, bank announcements. But up in the corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest...
...Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro problem-civil equality, amalgamation, colonization...