Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco Annuity. In 1923 Tobacco Products was a $70,000,000 Virginia corporation with 20 well-advertised brand names, including Herbert Tareyton, Johnnie Walker, Melachrino. Today Tobacco Products is one of the so-called Morrow-interests, and its principal asset is a wad of stock in United Cigar Stores, which is in the hands of the courts...
...intervening years American Tobacco (Lucky Strikes) purchased the manufacturing facilities of Tobacco Products but instead of buying the valuable good-will tied up in the brand names it leased them for 99 years at an annual rental of $2,500,000. American Tobacco, however, has an option to buy the brands at any time, and last week it was reported that President George Washington Hill was planning to do just that...
...wife and their 14 children said they had always known that some day "Old 97'' would come roaring in to put them all on Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme...
...omitted) Cotton $602,000 $611,000 Wheat 432,000 359,000 Barley 91,000 63,000 Tame Hay 724,000 536,000 Tobacco 240,000 179,000 Potatoes...
Died. Mrs. Cassie Rowland Milnes Hill, relict of President-Founder Percival S. Hill of the American Tobacco Co., mother of American Tobacco's President George Washington Hill; after short illness; in Manhattan...