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...grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They had a hunch that if man could carry around a substantial, fairly permanent store of extra hormones, his body would absorb as large an amount as was physically possible; just as a camel gradually draws energy from his hump...
...that Philip Morris has stuck to one theme and one slogan without switching from one idea to another every few months as do many others. At any rate Philip Morris spent only $908,497 for advertising (exclusive of radio talent) in 1937 as compared with $8,500,000 for Camel, $8,900,000 for Chesterfield, $5,600,000 for Luckies, and $4,000,000 for Old Gold. And Philip Morris sold 8,200 cigarets per dollar of advertising against 6,800 for Luckies, 4,500 for Camels, 3,400 for Chesterfields, 2,200 for Old Golds...
...what scandalized Frenchmen remember best is Maurras' campaign in 1936 against Premier Leon Blum, whom he addresses by the horrible French epithets of "the dog-camel" and-worse- "the female camel." This was called the "kitchen knife campaign" because Maurras incited his readers, if they had no other weapons, to go after Leon Blum and 140 left Deputies with kitchen knives. When, acting on his advice. Royalists seriously wounded Blum and his wife, Maurras was sentenced to a year in prison. Republican officials permitted him, however, to outfit his cell as a library, and Maurras continued to turn...
...skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
...smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half of Iran's exports (excluding oil revenues, used exclusively for the army), bringing the King of Kings needed foreign money...