Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year chairman and chief sponsor of its market program, would resign shortly after March 4 to return to his $100,000 per-year post as head of International Harvester Co. last week became an accepted fact. In his place was foreseen James Clifton Stone, vice chairman and tobacco's representative, who was expected to sheer the Board away from its present market program. Though Chairman Legge would not give a yes-or-no answer, he did say: "If a street car were to run over me tonight, the Board would go on exactly as it has been...
Married. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of the late Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late great James Jerome Hill who founded the Great Northern Railroad; in Manhattan...
Cigarets produced during 1930 reached a new high of 119,624,909,900, an increase of 586,000,000 over 1929. Cigar production dropped 662,000,000 to 5,889,132,400. A decrease of 9,000,000 Ib. brought manufactured tobacco down to 328,765,000 Ib. Snuff produced was slightly less...
...general public: "The outlay for cosmetics, cigarets, chewing gum, are expenditures that are in no sense necessities and are distinctly in the luxury class. These luxury expenditures total over five and a half times the total cost of all non-government health services. The amount spent for tobacco alone is three times as much as that spent for physicians and the American people spend more for candy than they do for doctors...
...Oilman McDuffie left Royal Dutch-Shell. He and Jacques Vinmont (onetime Jacques Weinberger) of Blair & Co. formed Pacific Western Oil. Mr. McDuffie has a new home in San Marino (Pasadena suburb), plays strenuous tennis on his own court, uses no tobacco. His office is in the new black-&-gold Richfield Building which is crowned by a mighty air beacon. This building was erected by Clarence M. Fuller, spectacular marketer and advertiser whom Mr. McDuffie succeeded as Richfield president...