Operating income in the domestic tobacco business rose 13.2 percent.
A. Well, the company got nearly $8 billion for their foreign tobacco business, which is a great price.
"We're in the process of hiring more people on the tobacco business."
The tobacco business would continue as the chief industry through the 1930s.
And the tobacco business, it seems, has one for him.
Second, no new company wants to get into the tobacco business.
Operating profits of the domestic tobacco business fell 11 percent.
He has recently gotten out of the tobacco business though.
My father was in the tobacco business, and he lived up there.
And the company's domestic tobacco business has been doing better.