Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of 1933 dividends. Last month American Tobacco gave up its usual $1 extra dividend and last week Mr. Hill, worried by stockholders' suits, renounced for the future the $380,000 he might have had as a management bonus. But what most worried Mr. Hill was 10? cigaret sales. Present estimated annual rate of production gives to two of the ten centers alone 20% of the total, makes the "Big Four" a "Big Six." Figures...
...ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting the attacks blow themselves...
...things have been going in the cigaret business was again shown clearly by two developments of last week...
...glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...While smokers were filling their cigaret cases last week for 1? less than the week before, a 1?-a-gallon cut in the price of gasoline in all territory east of the Rocky...