| View Larger Image | The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company | Paperbackby Nannie M. Tilley (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press | | Page Count: | 744 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 12, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 2,266,140nd |
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In this corporate history of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nannie M. Tilley recounts the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and the vast R. J. Reynolds tobacco complex with precision and drama. Reynolds’s rise in the tobacco industry began in 1891 when he introduced saccharin as an ingredient in chewing tobacco. Forced into James B. Duke’s American Tobacco Company in 1899, the Reynolds company became the agency for consolidating the flat plug industry. In 1907, as the government began its antitrust suit against Duke, Reynolds himself bucked the trust and introduced another bestseller: Prince Albert smoking tobacco. The government won its suit in 1911; Duke’s Tobacco Combination was dissolved, and Reynolds, left with a free and independent company, a much larger plant, and improved machinery, immediately began an expansion program. |
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