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DUKE, JAMES B.

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DUKE, JAMES B.
<b>285. JAMES B. DUKE</b> American industrialist who turned the firm of W. Duke Sons & Co. toward the mass manufacture and marketing of cigarettes. After a "tobacco war" among the five principal manufacturers, Duke emerged as president of the American Tobacco Company. Partly-printed D.S. 2pp. sm. folio, [n.p.], May 2, 1917, in which Duke, acting for his infant daughter (and future eccentric) DORIS DUKE, purchases a $50,000 forty-year gold bond issued by the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company. Near fine.<b>$400-600</b>