Word: schweitzer
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...were very much interested in reading the article on p. 59 of your April 13 issue, under the caption, "Monopoly Challenge," regarding the effort in the cigaret tissue field of Messrs. William and Louis Schweitzer...
...happens that C. H. Dexter & Sons Inc. are in exactly the same field of paper manufacture as the Schweitzer firm...
...believe that this article is rather misleading to the public, as it would tend to give the impression that, the Schweitzer mill is the only mill equipped to make cigaret tissue, when as a matter of fact, there are three in this country; namely, Smith Paper Co., Lee, Mass., Schweitzer and ourselves. All three of these mills for several years past have been producing identical grades of paper...
...present the Schweitzer factory is idling along, turning out only enough wrappers to satisfy the curiosity or needs of small cigaret manufacturers. But the plant is so geared that at a moment's notice it can be whipped into quantity production, to shatter the French monopoly...
...Schweitzers know that at least one big stumbling block stands in the way of this development. All French merchants know and bank on the U. S. fondness for imported things. In the highly competitive U. S. cigaret field, it will take a daring company to buy cigaret paper from the Schweitzer's Elizabeth mill, although many buy from their French mill. For. should it become known that the paper of a leading brand was made in a new U. S. factory, it is easy to visualize the other brands proclaiming the fact that they use "only the finest imported...