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Ordinary activities marked 1928-29 as the latest in a series of Prohibition years. Undergraduates of the time will undoubtedly recall Old Golds' frantic "not a cough in a carload" campaign, and the company's resulting painful honesty in reporting that only at Harvard did any other cigarette prove more popular than...
...caused coughing and tuberculosis. In May 1953, International sent its lawyers to court seeking $8,400,000 damages. In his decision last week, Judge Clayden found all United's propaganda false. International is not an apartheid company, and as for Maxes, there was not a cough in a carload...
Mass Deportation. A woman who asked not to be named in the press because her husband might still be alive and in Communist hands, told the committee that soon after the Russians marched into Lithuania they began shipping men, women and children to Siberia by the carload. Separated from her husband, she spent 17 hungry, nightmarish days traveling eastward in a cattle car packed with 40-odd deportees, 15 of them infants. In Siberia she lived in a crude barracks, worked twelve hours a day in a construction gang...
...Next day, refreshed by this news, and by water from a nearby spring, Bedrich and Marian Cech took a desperate chance. Armed with their tools and Marian's lumberyard identification, they marched straight up to the stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer...
...small retailer is doomed? Not necessarily. But it does mean that more of them will be forced to pool their buying power and shipping needs through such organizations as the Independent Grocers Alliance of America (TIME, Sept. 21) to get the same savings as big retailers do from carload purchases, centralized warehouses and mechanized handling...