Word: malle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifth, Pall Mall, put out by a subsidiary of American Tobacco. Pall Mall made the most spectacular gain, boosting sales 38.2% to 23.5 billion cigarettes, thereby pushing Old Gold (P. Lorillard) out of fifth place...
...have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...
Today the department's Commodity Credit Corp. has an independent bankroll larger than the assets of General Motors, with which to plunge in the commodity markets and manipulate food prices. In two massive buildings astride the Washington Mall-North Ag and South Ag-are eight miles of corridors and 4,844 rooms. In rooms stocked with calculating machines and tabulators, scores of statisticians concoct crop and market reports so potent that they could, if mishandled, send prices gyrating and throw the U.S. economy into galloping confusion...
...heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten thousand people eating five tons of beans rubbled her sensitively...
...doing business at the rate of $10 million a year. Allison, who had only counted on $5 million, thought his gross might hit $20 million by the time the rest of Northgate is in full swing. By midsummer Northgate's five-block long, 48-ft.-wide "Miracle Mall" will be lined with 70-odd shops, a 1,468-seat theater and a four-story office building. Among the shops: J. J. Newberry, Firestone tires, and a C. & H. supermarket, the biggest in the state of Washington...