Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reluctant to refuse when it was offered to him by President Roosevelt at the White House, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles Ben Ross smoked his first cigaret in 20 years...
...more & more determined to dance, had to be reminded time & again that her mother was a Standish, ninth direct descendant of Pilgrim Miles. When she was 10, the family moved to California, where she saw Ruth St. Denis, then absorbed by the fluent Oriental postures inspired by a cigaret advertisement which she had seen posted in a drugstore window...
...knowledge of the human hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop a tea account which will run into major money...
...copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips...
Tobacco processing taxes were reduced on some grades last autumn, but no cut in cigaret prices followed. While there was talk of a cigaret cut last week, greatest benefit will flow to the tobacco companies, which were never able to pass on the tax in full...