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...states which levy cigaret taxes, discovered that cigarets sell best in Connecticut (per capita consumption: 98.8 packs a year), Massachusetts (97.8), Rhode Island (91.5), New York (91.3). Other state averages: Washington 85.5, Maine 83.4, Illinois 77.2, Ohio 75.8, Wisconsin 60.8, Texas 55, Utah 50.4, Kansas 48.8, Kentucky 41.8, South Dakota 41.7, Oklahoma 35.9, Arkansas...
Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those...
...beaten. The Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth the votes given the U. S. and would reduce England to the position of North Dakota. The Great Journalist thinks the Britons too decrepit to resist anyway...
...York Metropolitans (a forerunner of the Yankees). One of the league's leading sluggers, who plays second base for the Kubs, is 83-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of the great baseballing Roger.* The Kids' most eminent character is 77-year-old Elmer Veitch, onetime North Dakota State senator. Oldest player is Detroit's and the Kids' Elmer Wilken...
...During the "dust bowl" era, South Dakota had so much adverse publicity that some of us developed quite an inferiority complex. To top it all off, the First Lady, in her numerous jaunts about the country omitted us entirely in her itineraries. . . . Then the dust storms subsided and the grass commenced growing again. We began to throw out our chests. Among other things, South Dakota has one of the largest gold-producing mines in the world, some of the best agricultural land in the country and without a doubt the best pheasant and waterfowl hunting anywhere. ... We feel that...