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Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like...
Despite continuing reports that cigarettes are the worst darn things, tobacco-men in 1958 scored their "biggest peacetime advance in 20 years." So last week in Printers' Ink wrote Consultant Harry M. Wootten, the man who knows the tobacco industry best. Sales last year, said Wootten, soared about 9% to top $4 billion; profits rose 11% to $220 million. Domestic consumption jumped to an alltime high of 430 billion cigarettes, up 5% for the year. Most important, per capita use broke the old record of 3,509 cigarettes set in 1952, just before the start of the medical reports...
Sales of home sewing machines have more than doubled since 1948, to about 1,500,000 a year, because the new machines embroider, darn, quilt, overcast, link two edges without overlapping, sew on buttons, make buttonholes-do virtually everything except dry cleaning. These wonders are mainly attributable to the invasion of foreign machines (about 1,000,000 a year), such as Italy's Necchi, which ten years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip...
...second respectively and lead the Crimson to a lopsided 22 to 37 victory over the Big Red harriers Saturday at Ithaca. In downing Cornell in the opening meet of the season, the varsity took six out of the first nine places to register what Coach Bill McCurdy called a "darn good varsity performance...
...informed on the operations of this Government, all of the major decisions, as I possibly can . . . Now, when it comes to the successor, as far as I am concerned the candidate will be named by the Republican Party, and I submit that I think there are a lot of darn good men that could be used...