Word: cigarete
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...working at top speed, it cannot supply all that the Ordnance Bureau needs. Says Admiral Blandy: "Consider that a single fire-control unit may weigh up to a ton, and that tolerances in that unit will scale down to .0005 of an inch, about half the thickness of a cigaret paper, and you'll see why we'd like a few more Bausch & Lombs...
...Until defense interfered, Alcoa was busy on the cigaret foil market, claims the tobacco industry could save $500,000 a year in freight costs by using aluminum foil instead of tin. Aluminum beer kegs are already used by Ballantine and others...
...Chile, Mr. Marcus admired and bought a hand-worked copper cigaret case. He couldn't buy any more because its maker, a silversmith, really felt it beneath him to work in copper. There Mr. Marcus planted a seed for the future: to glamorize copper work, he offered a prize to the schoolboy who. could make the best handmade copper gadget...
...Reporter Moffitt's Hollywood eye it seemed that the Senators were working without a script. There was Senator Tobey ("He has a nervous trick of making dainty thrusts with his cigaret ... as though he were giving the hot foot to invisible pixies"). There was Wendell Willkie, counsel for the motion-picture industry, who upset the proceedings at the start. Denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, Lawyer Willkie jumped the gun with a 2,600-word blast defending the industry, attacking the legality of the Committee, and pointing grimly at the anti-Semitism he found in the proceedings...
Mariquita is a daughter of the late great Spanish poet and novelist, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who died five years ago at the age of 67, a stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...