Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting, to dwell on a more pleasant subject, is entirely good. Those who saw some genius in the great hulking, tobacco chewing mule skinner of the "Covered Wagon," and later the king of the underworld in the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," will let his presence in the cast alone for a be the multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under...
...manufacturers argued that it was no worse to sell chewing gum on shipboard than to sell chewing tobacco, which has always been sold. They argued that a piece of chicle, delicately flavored and injected into the mouth of a gob (except when in ranks) not only was harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals...
Usually towards the end of the year there is a recession in tobacco production. April usually marks the resumption of heavy output. But not so this year. With cigaret production as a good indicator, the January record was about 4.4% higher than that of January, 1925; February 9.8% and March 21.7% above their respective months of 1925. So far this year 20,820,393,746 cigarets have been made and taxed by the internal revenue bureaus-12% more than in the first quarter of last year...
...tobacco business was enormous and profitable. Twelve firms-R. J. Reynolds, American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, P. Lorillard, American Cigar, General Cigar, Consolidated Cigar, U. S. Tobacco (snuff), G. W. Helme (snuff), American Snuff, United Cigar Stores (retailers) and Schulte Retail stores-aggregated net incomes of $96,154,158. This was an increase of nearly 14% over total profits of 1924, of about 28% over 1923 and about 29% over...
Nearly 80 billion (80,000,000,000) cigarets were sold (71 billion in 1924) ; 6½ billion cigars (slightly less than in 1924) ; 37¾ million pounds of snuff (3% less than in 1924) ; smoking tobacco 372,431,572 pounds...