Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the American tobacco industry has bounced back from its 1953-54 slump, is puffing contentedly over big sales and expansion plans. See BUSINESS, Complete Recovery. One reason why Americans are smoking again more or less fearlessly is that they see safety in filters. Starting from practically nowhere, filter cigarettes have now taken over nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist that, while they may have incidental benefits, present filters are relatively futile against dangerous tobacco tars. But the Sloan-Kettering Institute's noted...
Deerfield capitalized on several scoring chances as the Yardling defensemen allowed their rivals to filter through for comparatively unmolested shots at the Crimson goal...
...FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record...
...some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...advertising to transform a product's personality. Since Philip Morris Inc. decided to turn ladylike Marlboro into a "heman" cigarette, its ads have centered on a succession of tattooed male smokers; the brand has in less than a year on the national market become the No. 3 U.S. filter-tip (after Winston, Viceroy...