Word: camelizing
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...Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...deductions for companies sponsoring tourist advertising. The promotions have created new spots to attract worldweary travelers. Jordan, the only Arab nation without oil, intends to wipe out its annual $40 million budget deficit with tourists. The government has allotted $21 million for new hotels, is advertising both its camel races and a new seaside resort at Aqaba...
...lost camel...
...enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure. But as an educated man, Mr. Moses...
...Louisiana, 12% in Alabama, 14% in Illinois. Connecticut reported a 12% decline in sales, which cost the state $246,000 in expected taxes. - In Louisville, Brown & Williamson (Viceroy) and P. Lorillard (Kent) went on four-day weeks, and Philip Morris trimmed to a three-day week. R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) has been on a four-day week for a month. Though cigarette sales usually slump just after Christmas, Reynolds admitted that the current drop in cigarette demand is "more than normal...