Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says he: "I do believe that if a cigarette appeals to me?I'm a pretty average fella ?it might appeal to the population." This week Gray, who smokes as many as four packs of Winstons a day (with an occasional Salem), was also puffing away at cigarettes from chalky white, unmarked testing packs. Through his mouth and into his windpipe he rolled the smoke with all the sober concentration of a winetaster. In the blank packs were cigarettes being tested as possible additions to half a dozen new brands that Reynolds already has on hand...
Though the company now has 30% of the cigarette market, Gray wants more...
Reynolds is building a 14-acre $30 million plant that will increase its capacity 30% next year. Last week Reynolds announced that it is moving into Europe, buying a 51% interest in West Germany's second largest cigarette firm of Haus Neu-erburg. Does the cancer talk give Gray pause? Says he: "I just don't believe...
People are hearing the same old story, and the record is getting scratched, the needle stuck." Pattern of Hell. Many respected medical authorities flatly disagree with Bowman Gray. But then, the war against tobacco is as old as civilized man's first puff. What has changed is that the attacks that were once emotional and moral are now scientific. Ever since Columbus found the Caribbean Indians smoking "tobago" (their name for the primitive pipe in which they smoked tobacco) and smoking was introduced into Europe, the friends and foes of tobacco have been tearing at one another's T-zones...
From the Negro stemmers to Chairman Gray, most of the company's 14,000 employees are local folk. Like Gray, whose father and uncle were both Reynolds chairmen, many are the second or third generation to work for Reynolds. Twelve of the 15 directors are company officers who meet weekly at an informal luncheon, can be rounded up in ten minutes at any other time if anything important comes up. Reynolds' factory workers (35% 0, them Negro) are so loyal to the firm that they have kept Reynolds the only major nonunion firm in the industry, even though it pays...