Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generals refused the request of Elmer Davis, head of the Office of War Information, that one representative of each of the three big press associations be allowed to attend the trial if their copy were censored. They refused to let anyone from the Office of War Information prepare a digest of the proceedings...
Result of the Reader's Digest tests, as written up by Robert Littell: "The differences between brands are, practically speaking, small and no single brand is so superior to its competitors as to justify its selection on the ground that it is less harmful...
...Digest listed the microscopic quantities of nicotine and the low percentages of tars found in each smoke. On the figures, Old Golds were ahead of the rest by a thin longitudinal slice of a frog's hair...
Quick were Old Gold's silver penmen to start the backfire. Reader's Digest's July issue was still on top of the rack in the bathrooms of American homes when Old Gold hit the newspapers with full-page advertisements...
...Reader's Digest Exposes Cigarette Claims! Impartial tests find OLD GOLD lowest in Nicotine and Throat-Irritating Tars and Resins . . . Get July Reader's Digest. See what this highly respected magazine reports...