Word: cigarete
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Alfred Lyon thereupon became a "missionary" at $15 a week, began to learn cigaret selling in the Ellis-McKitterick manner. Through the years and many a complicated corporate change the three stuck together. In 1931 Ellis and McKitterick emerged with working control of an inconspicuous 12-year-old firm named Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc., with annual sales of about $3,000,000. Last week Rube and Mac were not alive to see it, but Philip Morris was the No. 1 success story of a depression year. It had increased its sales 45%, its profits from...
...voice as smooth as cream. He was a cadet in the Russian revolution, defended the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated...
...home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot, which is one of mistaken identity: two brothers trying to save their father from the clutches of a cigaret girl, encountering the wrong girl when their father has left town with the siren. Fortunately, nobody utters the half-dozen words of explanation which would have immediately stopped the fuss. Having saved their father from the girl, Ameche and Young alternate in saving the girl from each other. Josette...
...fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried to cover up by starting a fire in the lower deck linen locker, so that by giving the alarm for both fires I would be given credit for watchfulness instead of being blamed...
...month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator shaft of a 16-story hotel. The cables held the man so tightly that he could move only his left arm. And with this he was dully smoking a cigaret when Dr. Wassermann arrived...