Word: binder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process is not only stirring the biggest technical shake-up in the industry since cigarettes; it has already greatly altered the market for raw tobacco, U.S. farmers' sixth most valuable cash crop. Predicts Nu-Way Tobacco Co.'s Jean Shepard Jr., who is making the binder for about 15 cigar makers: "Inside of two years, there won't be a cigar maker in the U.S. who doesn...
Fantastic Acceptance." General Cigar claims "fantastic consumer acceptance" for HTL, which is used in place of conventional "binder," the layer of tobacco (12% of the cigar) that is sandwiched be tween inside "filler" and outer "wrapper." General has already licensed its process to other U.S. and foreign cigar makers, many of whom expect HTL to cut the cost of 10? cigars by 40? per 100. American Machine & Foundry Co. has developed another process for homogenized tobacco binder, also has patents on machines to turn out man-made leaf, which cigarette makers shred for filler. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels...
...leaf) that are now discarded can be pulverized, mixed with a cellulose adhesive and squeezed out in continuous rolls. For both cigar and cigarette makers, man-made leaf means a big cut in the cost of handling, grading and curing tobacco. Cigar makers who have switched to HTL binder can use imperfect broad-leaf (costing only 30? per lb. v. high-grade broadleaf costing up to 60?), find they need 50% less tobacco. Southern growers are complaining that use of man-made leaf in cigarettes will depress the market even further for the high-grade, high-priced "Bright leaf" they...
Summa degrees will go to the following members of the Class of 1956: John A. Armstrong, Physics; Charles A. Behr, Classics; Sheldon C. Binder, Biology; John C. Brown, History and Literature; Bruce F. Cameron, Chemistry; Robert W. Colman, Biochemical Sciences; James N. Cooper, History and Literature...
From Massachusetts: David Axelrod of Lowell and Great Barrington; Sheldon C. Binder of Eliot and Boston; Richard Braverman of Laverett and Brookline; Gerald Y. Chin of Adams and Boston; George B. Doyle of Winthrop and Worcester; Thomas Ehrlich of Lowell and Cambridge; Louis H. Fingerman of Winthrop and Dorchester; Robert M. Gargill of Adams and West Roxbury; Ruber F. Gittes of Adams and Melrose; Arthur C. Gossard of Kirkland and Quincy; William T. Green Jr. of Lowell and Belmont; William S. Kaden of Adams and Chestnut Hill; Robert D. Richardson 3rd of Eliot and Concord...