Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Tobacco Co. handles about one-third of the cigaret and smoking tobacco, about one-fourth of the plug tobacco sold in the U. S. Among its many familiar brands are Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike cigarets, Bull Durham and Half and Half smoking tobaccos. Sales last year totaled some $200,000,000. The advertising appropriation on Lucky Strikes alone was estimated at $12,300,000. As the largest fragment of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Tobacco Trust, which the government dissolved in 1911, American Tobacco Co. occupies in its field somewhat the position held by Standard...
Like many another, Architect Lynn suspected a match or cigaret butt had been carelessly thrown into inflammable oils, paints, papers. Still incoherent from inhaled fumes. Artist Moberly babbled that he did not smoke cigarets, only cigars, that, in fact, he did not smoke at all. Later he admitted that he had had "a couple of drinks" in the afternoon, had fallen asleep over his desk in the storage room. With him, he said, was a man named Sam Hall who had been reading a newspaper. When he awoke. Hall was fighting the fire...
Early last week United Press correspondent Emilio Aguidino strolled along Buenos Aires' Calle Brazil smoking a morning cigaret, enjoying the warm December sunshine. Opposite the cigar store above which unique President Irigoyen lives in a modest apartment waited the Presidential automobile with its usual accompaniment of escorting automobiles, aides, detectives. Correspondent Aguidino gave a casual glance at a dingy little man in a faded brown suit who lounged nearby. He saw the dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent...