Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a turn at making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo...
Five out of ten U. S. citizens probably associate the name Reynolds with Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco or Torch-singer Libby Holman. Nevertheless, in the land where containers are often more important than their contents, Reynolds Metals Co. is a major industrial name. World's largest maker of tin and other metal foils, the company was founded by Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobaccoman Richard Joshua Reynolds. Indeed, Nephew Richard is supposed to have persuaded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to concentrate on Camels before he struck out for himself...
...small brown leather case marked R. F. W. One tobacco pouch made of brown pigskin marked to Tom M. from...
...brown leather pigskin tobacco pouch, zipper lock...
...addition to its construction material, the North Haven's 6,000-ton cargo includes every imaginable item needed to keep the men on the islands supplied with life's necessities during their lonely tenure. Some of the items: razor blades, soap, safety pins, flashlights, cigarets, chewing tobacco, shoelaces, candy, shoe polish, boxing gloves, chess sets, checkerboards, books, toothpicks, toothpaste, chewing gum, food...