Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stake was Philip Morris' chief stock in trade. In 18 years, its sales have shot from $2.6 million to $305 million, largely on the strength of the fact that Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol (instead of glycerin) as a moistening agent. It has persuaded thousands of smokers, in its famous "nose test," that consequently Philip Morris cigarettes are less irritating. As evidence, Philip Morris presented the FTC with testimony from doctors, researchers and others who reported on "scientific" tests as far back as 1934. For every expert brought in by Philip Morris, competitors and U.S. glycerin manufacturers popped...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
...running the Standard Oil Trust and left huge fortunes.* As one of their heirs, young Jennings, after graduation from Yale in 1920, had no trouble landing a job with Socony (then Standard Oil Co. of New York) as a clerk in the marine department. Soon he was purchasing agent, then real-estate manager, became assistant to President John A. Brown, and stepped into his shoes at Brown's death...
Hope is forced to play this double role when the Government decides that the burlesque comedian resembles (identically) a more notorious figure who is about to purchase valuable micro-films from An Enemy Agent in Africa...
Boots Malone has top billing. Set at a Maryland race track, it is the story of a young boy and a hardboiled jockey's agent, bound together by the thrills of horse racing. There is little of the traditional "Win the big race" story. When the climactic dash down the homestretch begins in this film, it is commonly accepted that the hero's horse will win. The race has been rigged, fixed...