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FILE NAME Kent KNT DATE 1954 DOC KNT017 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Trade Journal Article - Cigarettes New Filter Entry with Cover Letters H V SPECIALTIES CO A Subsidiary of Hollingsworth & Vose Company INC Office East Walpole Mass EAST WALPOLE MASSACHUSETTS Plants WasT GROTON Mass COMINSVILLE MASS December 3 1954 Dr. H. B. Parmele ! P. Lorillard Company Old Gold Branch 111 First Street Jersey City 2 New Jersey me Dear Dr. Parmele We wish to acknowledge receipt of and thank you for four of your letters dated December 1 two addressed other two being copies of letters to our Mr. to the writer the Lurvey and to Mr. Ralph M. Winters Jr. of American Viscose Corporation respectively Taking these up in sequence your report on the master roll containing Dacron microfibers in the 30 sq.yd web weight is rather disappointing from a removal point of view This poor performance is undoubtedly as you suggest due to the improper dispersion of microfibers throughout the web Obviously any mechanical handling which the microfibers are subject to results in anagglomeration of same with subsequent impairment of filtering action This is borne out by your test results on the material submitted by American Viscose as reported in your letter to Mr. Winters The other two letters pertain to the problem of anchoring the asbestos in the present micronite furnish In view of the contem- plated elimination of asbestos we did not wish to go into any detailed analysis of Dr. Fullam's findings at this time It does seem obvious that his test results make little sense If you desire we will gram of solved go into this problem in greater detail after the present prodeciding on a colored substitute for the asbestos has been We hope that one of the samples which Mr. Lurvey is taking to Jersey City today will prove satisfactory in this regard 2 Yours very truly H & V SPECIALTIES 00. INC W. 042680 Harold Knudson Harold W. Knudson Technical Director* HWK a . . met : ce CONTROL , PERFORMANCE OF . ALL AGREEMENTS 19 SUBJECT TO DELAY CAUSED BY STRIKES WORK STOPPAGES OR DOWNS ACCIDENTS FIRE CADBES %.*. AND TO FAILURE OR DELAY OF OUR SUPPLIERS ALL QUOTATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHARGE WITHOUT NOTICE BETONG OUR CONTROL rp CONTROL of Mrs. Wanda K. Farr . 2500 Wisconsin Avenue Washington D. N.W. Dear Mrs. Farr is covering the problem of yellow spots on Kent an extremely the effort interesting and valuable report cigarette and paper This which you have expended on the we greatly appreciate problem - your usual good attention and let us know anything has been accomplished The as promptly as possible what is samples as you will observe are labeled We were sorry to hear that Mrs. Revere's mother we trust that she is making a has been ill and satisfactory recovery Very truly yours P. LORILLARD COMPANY IERADI JANUARYPROTECIVCONFIDETAL 7 191ORDERPURSANT TO DATED THE = HBP ics H. B. Parmele Ph.D. . Director of Research 0146724 Ld dd -put new note in retailing Everything personnel policy to white sales he felt had to be based on thinking and in- Steel Showdown dispute The eleventh hour in in the steel struck this week Barring a minute settlement or extension of their strike tellect A harried ad writer complaiyed Nothing after being quizzed by Weil on her ad- vertising theories like that ever happened to me before The more he asked the less I knew deadline which the Wage Stabilization Board had already requested 650,000 members of Phil Murray's CIO Steelworkers would be hitting hittingthe bricks after midnight Sunday The reason stee com- were not likely to grant the . panies 18 union's demand fo -centhourly in| WSB WSBcreases by then - nomatter what the recommended A panel last special week indicated that the board might approve anything from 2 to -cents an hou Meanwhile steelmen were pre- pared to bank the furnaces vo Earlier in the game Weil trained for the Macy job at L. Bamberger & Co. the store then owned by the Strauses at Newark His big idea there which failed to come of te lure Mortimer J. Adier of Great books fame away from the Univer sity of Chicago to become Bamberger's vice president in charge of thinking Wisen offered the Macy post Weil was advised by his doctor to turn it down He had already had two heart attacks which would have killed many another man But Weil determined to live and enjoy a full life refused to heed the warning Struck Rails Last week year Bob Weil suddenly resigned his Maey presidency in icotine such babies babies develop a tolemicetolemice to at t icotine icotine before they are bon + | i top To off the American Medical #7 has Association journal has said that from a psychological point of view . 2 Suidie can 7 be said in behalf of smoking as Joom of escape from tension them against it The average American is thus kept constantly aware of dangernus tus and nicotinTeo capitalize on this some of the small cigarette firmshave turned out filtered smokes designeti to cut down down these impurities This week one of the county's big five cigarette makers the P. Lariliard Co. manufacturers of Old Guids entered the filtered field Loriliard introduced a new named standard Sitered vignette named Kent Lorillard's president Herbert A. Kent 50 cents a pack Viceroys sell for23 cents Panhaments Panhaments Piccadillys DuMauriers for32 centsi The biggest news in Kents sai^ Lorillard is the nature of the filter Until the drawn dispute be- favor of Cousin Jack top man in the Called Micronite it contains a secid tween the railroads and three operating unions was settied the country could parent organization Weil however was staying on as vice president of R. H. Macy mineral which is supposed in remove 60.7 per cent of tars and nicotine expect just what it got last week Be tween Buffalo and Chicago on the New York Central engineers fremen and conductors quit work then patience at an end Newsw Mkarch 17 & Co. With the competition in retail sales tightening up and calling for more stren- umus effort from retailing leaders Weil preferred to walk out of a hot spot before they carried him out The mineral ingredient was discovered in Africa by the Germans who used it in their gas masks during the last war In 1943 U.S. troops captured some of the masks and chemists set to work to figure Alter three days the justice Depart- out what was in them It took about a ment sought a temporary strike injunction in Federal court in Cleveland It was CIGARETTES year Then the mineral was incorporated incorporated in American gas masksLater it was quickly granted and the three unions involved Brotherhood of Locomotive New Filter Entry passed on to the Atomic Energy Commis sion which now uses it to filter radio- Engineers the Brotherhood of Locomo The row over the merits and dements active gases from the air in its plants tive Firemen and Enginiemen and the of tobacco has been raging for years One The new smokes will be introduced Order of Railway Conductors up round workers 2, ea cigarette Therailroad workers had aoe plenty ae almost three years theirpetitions to doctor claimed that the infant born of a mother who is a addiet is eer- plenty Min to be a defective Another insisted first in New York Chicago and Los Angeles Lorillard hopes to reach na tionaldistribution by the end of the year Biden wage raise and a hour in SENSGard been kicking around Labor sn The the Mave bondsRailway unions litter odds over certain certain working especiallthyose miles and oe weed Sa a mur ror] 4