Word: brandsness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
On the New York Stock Exchange last week tobacco stocks took a deep dive. At the end of the week Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. was 53, ten points below its Monday high. American Tobacco Co. was down eight points to 61. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. dropped from 31 to...
In March President George Cooper of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. of Louisville, Ky., reduced the price of a 15? cigaret called Wings to 10?. Production of Wings doubled in a month. Although White Rolls and Paul Jones had fallen off a little. Wings' sales boosted the ten-centers'...
Remedies? The November issue of FORTUNE, out this week, estimates that Lucky Strikes, Camels, Chesterfields and Old Golds will sell to the extent of about 84½ billion cigarets in 1932, some 18 billion less than last year. Practically all of this loss will go to the10? cigaret. What can...
The makers of the four leading 10? cigarets (there are a dozen others, with local sales) worried little last week. If suspicion were cast on the quality of their brands they could point to their sales as proof that the public likes them. They are all oldtime tobacconists, sure they...
Mr. Calverton is primarily a polemic and, like many of his kind, he stretches and overstates his facts to make his case more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in...