Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay was called back to Washington to take over the Strategic Air Command, succeeding General George C. Kenney. His successor in Wiesbaden: pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 56, brilliant wartime commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediterranean...
...uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
...illustrate, Goldsmith took a Maggie & Jiggs strip of last May. The first frame showed Jiggs with his right hand in his pocket. Explained Analyst Goldsmith: "A signal to buy."* Two rings of smoke were coming from Jiggs's cigar ("The market will go up in the second hour of trading"). In the second frame, Maggie is saying: "I don't see why you can't get your name in the paper, too" ("Buy International Paper"). In the last frame, Jiggs's cigar smoke is still rising, indicating a steady market at the close...
From the moment the camera turns on him as he sits smoking a cigar in the bathtub to his final writhings on the floor of the boat, Edward G. Robinson could be Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz. At all times there is the loaded revolver, the two inch cigar, and "yah." Combining these devices with an excellent sneer, and some well handled lines, Robinson turns in his best acting job to date...
...president, cigar-chomping Jack Reese wore his hat on the job, worked 16 hours a day trimming off Continental's fat (he cut costs $75,000 a month), and drumming up new business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...