Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences. He told the Court at length that a great emergency had existed in 1933. He estimated that there were $100,000,000,000 of Government and private gold obligations outstanding. If these had to be paid back in devalued dollars, it would take $169,000,000,000. Cried the Attorney...
...cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
Last week the tobacco company which 22 years ago started the trend toward huge cigaret sales, was the first big industrial corporation to announce earnings for the calendar year 1934. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. made $21,536,000, slightly more than in 1933. Stockholders were pleased to learn that Reynolds' directors had decided to continue the regular $3 dividend paid all during Depression...
Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell...
...other beneficiaries of Mr. Hill's move would be the bondholders of Tobacco Products Corp. of New Jersey, a. subsidiary of the parent Morrow company. The American Tobacco lease is pledged as collateral for the bonds, which were issued in a reorganization several years ago. Outstanding in practically the same amount as the theoretical value of the lease, the bonds become due & payable the instant Mr. Hill takes up his option...