Word: charcoaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president in April. Last week Harrington turned over the big leaf; he became L. & M.'s new chief executive, moving into a post vacated by the recent death of Chairman Zach Toms. Liggett & Myers managed to halt a five-year downward drift in sales in 1963 by introducing charcoal-filtered Lark cigarettes, but Harrington must deal with a steady decline in earnings, from $31.2 million in 1958 to $24.7 million last year. To improve business, L. & M.'s genial, slow-speaking boss, who does his part by smoking as much as three packs of cigarettes and several pipefuls...
...universe were to be cut in half, local solar-system gravitation would double, drawing the earth closer to the sun. The pressure in the sun's center would increase, thus raising its temperature, its generation of energy and its brightness. Before being seared into a lump of charcoal, a man on earth would find his weight increasing from...
MARGO HOFF-Banfer, 23 East 67th. She composes her collage paintings by layering tissue and rice paper on oil and canvas, adds effects with pencil, pastel, ink or charcoal. Her colors glow, but the works come to life when the artist introduces scraps of paper such as wedding confetti, wine labels and ticket stubs. Also on view are eight little wooden boxes. Through...
...Cocktails. While the Army's ubiquitous helicopters have won most of the glory, "the Peanut Air Force," as pilots wryly call it, compiled its own respectable record, plastering the Viet Cong with everything from bombs to "Mme. Nhu cocktails" (napalm mixed with charcoal). The Air Force claims that it has accounted for 35% of Viet Cong casualties...
...therefore important in bronchitis and related diseases, are largely carbolic and other acids. A proportion of these (up to 90% in the case of phenol) can be removed by cellulose acetate filters. Other cilia-damaging components, such as acetaldehyde and acrolein, are cut down by an activated charcoal filter, especially if the charcoal is compressed. A still better way, said Wynder and Hoffmann, is to filter the smoke through water and then through compressed charcoal, but so far this is not practicable -except, conceivably, in homes with filter-tipped hookahs...