Word: dewar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years since the ban on new signs was passed, the value of the existing billboards has skyrocketed. The highway commission estimates that it would cost the prohibitive total of some $12.3 million to buy all the signs that are blocking construction. One billboard, which carries a Dewar's Scotch whisky ad and a promotion for Hilton hotels, is said to be worth...
DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...