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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reynolds Tobacco Co. came an unexpected telegram that Camels had been boosted to their old price of $6.40. Chesterfields, Piedmonts, and Lucky Strikes followed immediately. From Lorillard came a statement that there were not enough officials in town over the weekend to do anything about it, that an announcement would be made soon. With the 1929 output of cigarets estimated at the new high figure of 120,000,000,000,* the rise in price, if maintained for the rest of the year, will mean in- creased profits...
...package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while at two for 23? it has been .92?. Since the package price is 11.28? at the new wholesale price, by selling cigarets at 15? again the merchants would make their former margin of 3.72?, which is 2.5? more than they will make if they continue to offer packages...
...they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore, be sold; the big operators would profit at their expense. To win over the little fellows, California's seven largest producers! offered to form Co-operative Gas Conservation Association which, supported by $230,000 a year from each...
...reasons of increasing demand and a constant supply, the price trend should be upward and only a slightly higher price can bring much greater returns to the growers. It is estimated that an increase of .0025 in the present price (about .0193 in Cuba; .0230 in the U. S.) would be enough to bring an end to all the troubles of the Cuba Cane Co., whose chairman is famed Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone...
...debenture and stockholders who had not agreed to the proposed re-organization hinted that the main trouble lay not in the agricultural conditions but the management. Through a spokesman they said, "We propose to organize a committee to resist the receivership on the ground that such receivership would represent a retention of control and extension of influence by the same group responsible for this magnificent ruin. . . . The receiver proposed (John R. Simpson, president of Cuba Cane, Vice President and Director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp.) is not qualified as he is not a sugar...