Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices for the doctor and his wife, waiting rooms (separate for whites and Negroes), two 10-ft.-by-10-ft. examination and treatment rooms. Dr. Sills has a sterilizer, centrifuge, microscope, and instruments for minor surgery. He wants no fancy, expensive gadgets like an electrocardiograph or X-ray machine, because these are handy at the Americus and Sumter County Hospital (130 beds), ten miles away...
MENTHOL CIGARETTES, which have come from 5% to 10% of the market in two years, will double their share to 20% in next two years, predicts Lewis J. Gruber, chairman of P. Lonllard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport). Gruber says smokers like mint and menthol sensations, but will not embrace new tastes-pineapple, cinnamon, apple blossom...
...Ireland's Whiskey Distillers that Gossage claims to have "established an important new industry in Ireland-writing letters to America." Says he: "If you write in and say you don't drink Irish, we may send your name to a man who does. It will be like the buddy system, like boy scouts helping each other to swim." Irish whiskey sales in the U.S.? Up 60% in the first nine months of this year, to 30,000 cases...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel...
...expect to be allowed to live in a hotel for less than $100 a day." Retaining his composure, the Ritz manager said that customary manners leave Getty's Ritz bills "up to the imagination." But, he added, "I can tell you he doesn't pay anything like that." Getty's own expenses come closer...