Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a man can write seven-figure checks, he can buy a lot of dreams-wallpaper by Rembrandt, perhaps, or an island in the sun, or a whole line of chorus girls. Charles O. Finley, 45, bought a baseball team. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, "Call Me Charlie" had dreamed of owning a big-league ball club ever since he was twelve and a batboy for the Birmingham Barons. He tried to buy the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, failed each time, finally got his chance when the Kansas City...
...increasing along the same lines as that for men. > There is not yet enough evidence to show whether filter cigarettes are really safer than "straights." > Quitting smoking definitely helps. >Pipe smoking is almost harmless. One risk: a slight increase in the incidence of cancer of the lip. > Cigar smoking, up to five cigars a day, is apparently safe; for men who smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only 1½ pages of the report. The committee decided that they...
There is reason to believe, Radford said, that the polonium content of pipe and cigar tobacco is about the same as in cigarettes, but that the cancer rate is lower for pipe and cigar smokers since they do not inhale as much. However, he added that cancer of the mouth and esophagus is about as frequent in all smokers...
...Robert L. Gibson is the youngest president in the 96-year history of Chicago-based Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby, one of the world's biggest food canners and freezers. Libby's sales had been declining for four years when energetic, cigar-chomping Bob Gibson took over in 1962 (he had never worked for another company), but his infusion of young ideas into the company has set it off on a steady rise ever since. Gibson shook up a whole roster of vice presidents, increased the authority of divisional managers, applied scientific research to marketing Libby...
...hard, harsh life. The market woman's day begins at 4 a.m.; by sunup, she is ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...