Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEARS, ROEBUCK will go into health and accident insurance. Fast-growing Allstate Insurance Co. will start selling policies in Southwest this week, will offer them nationwide by October...
Business statistics provided some hindsight last week on just when the economy started to turn around and how fast it is recovering. The recession lost most of its steam during 1958's second quarter. Now, as the National Association of Purchasing Agents said, "business recovery is proceeding slowly, with no great upward surge anticipated in the immediate future." Mileposts...
...achieved the $20,000-a-year bracket-or even $15,000-could join a country club and enjoy it. Today, country club managers quote J. P. Morgan's dictum on yachts: He who asks how much it costs cannot afford it. Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain is the cost spiral that hits country clubs...
Machines draw on cigarettes less frequently, often smoke less tobacco than a fast-puffing, heavy smoker-just the man who needs protection most. King Sano's test smokes little more than half the cigarette's 85-mm. length, also measures only that amount of tar which dissolves in chloroform, misses a lot. The Foster D. Snell labs, which test for Reader's Digest, told the Blatnik subcommittee that the chloroform extraction method measures only 69% of the tar in smoke. On the other hand, Snell tests only 45 cigarettes of each brand...
...nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps for its fast-rising Kent but does not, holding that the number of traps means nothing...