Word: cameleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina v. Elsbeth Holman ("Libby") Reynolds, 26, & Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19; by a nolle-pros action; in Winston-Salem, N. C. Cleared, not exonerated, were defendants Reynolds & Walker of the murder last July (TIME, July 18; Aug. 15) of Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, eccentric heir to the Camel cigaret fortune...
...uses this power constantly in self-protection. . . . He is uncomfortable with strangers: this is what is called his shyness. . . . He avoids eating with other people. ... He hates waiting more than two minutes for a meal or spending more than five minutes on a meal." He eats anything from diseased camel meat up. Says he, "To me, all food is alike except oysters and parsley. I don't like oysters. I'm not fond of parsley?tastes like a grave." He "avoids regular hours of sleep. . . . Perhaps his most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks...
...squads of engineers last week to build four landing fields at 100 mi. intervals between Alice Springs and The Granites. In The Granites, a wild, desolate territory, infested by savage blacks and savage insects, diggers had struck gold. Six expeditions were pushing toward the strike by truck, tractor, horseback, camel and by airplane. Every available ship was in demand to rush in food & water, rush out yellow dust...
...Tobacco Co. dropped from 31 to 28⅞. P. Lorillard Co., low already, held fairly steady, closing five-eighths of a point off at 13. Wall Street buzzed with rumors of impending price cuts on the four leading U. S. cigaret brands&-American's Lucky Strike, Reynolds' Camel, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, Lorillard's Old Gold-whose price is, and has been for years, 15? for a package...
Rise. Fourteen months ago 90% of the cigarets sold in the U. S. retailed for 15? a package. Tobacco was cheap, cigaret smoking was at its peak. The future looked fine and smoky to Tycoons George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill, Samuel Clay (Camel) Williams, Clinton W. (Chesterfield) Toms and Benjamin L. (Old Gold) Belt. Acting in concert (though legally disassociated since American Tobacco Co.'s trust was dissolved) they had just upped the wholesale price of their cigarets from $6.40 to $6.85 per thousand (presumably on the strength of the new Cellophane wrapping). Then, all unknown to Messrs. Hill...