Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half of the world where coin is not gold or gold-backed paper but silver, the East. Roundly Sir Hugo declared that the gold standard countries of the West must increase the purchasing power of silver (now at its all time...
Gasoline will be taxed 4¢ more a gallon. All entertainment taxes are raised to 16?%. Tobacco will be taxed 1¢ more an ounce, beer 2¢ more a pint...
...Physical Culture (price 15?) announced "the principles for which we stand. . . . We are struggling for the complete annihilation of those terrible evils which curse humanity the world over: 1) prudishness 2) corsets 3) muscular inactivity 4) gluttony 5) drugs 6) alcohol 7) tobacco...
...Ames Brown, handsome Southern newsman, resigned as president of the advertising house of Lord 6 Thomas and Logan, Inc. (American Tobacco. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, California Fruit Growers Exchange, General Electric). Succeeding Mr. Brown is another Wartime U. S. Ship ping Board protege of Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. and L.'s board chairman: Ralph V. Sollitt. Tactful Advertiser Sollitt is Indiana-born. He has been teacher, lawyer, banker. Under Wrill H. Hays he helped elect Warren Gamaliel Harding President. In 1924 at Mr. Lasker's urging he went to Chicago with L. & T. and L. He gathered...
...British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats and Courtaulds. Industrials include Vickers (steel), De Havilland Aircraft, Imperial Airways, Cunard, Dunlop, Kreuger & Toll, Unilever, Swedish Match, British-American Tobacco ("Bats") and Imperial Tobacco ("Imps"). Favorite of the land shares is Sudan Plantations, great Government-subsidized cotton farms. Guinness and Allsopp lead the breweries...