Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambitious young man named Alfred Emanuel Lyon went to work selling cigarets to stores on Manhattan's lower East Side. In the first three days he failed to sell a pack; every sales talk got the same answer: "Schicken." Just in time, a friend stopped Lyon from chucking the whole business. "Schicken," said he, did not mean "no," as Lyon had thought; it meant "send them...
...General was still around on D-plus-twelve, he must have seen something to pack his belly with anguish: a huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...
...scope of the cigaret black market was easier to pin down. In Manhattan probably 20 to 25% of all the cigarets for civilians were moving through the black market. Result: many a smoker was glad to pay 50? for a 17? pack of cigarets, more than glad when a black marketeer gave him a chance at a carton...
...smoker, taking any kind of cigaret he could get last week, found himself also short of matches. The free match book that once went with every pack of cigarets had gone, and the smoker was hard put to it to buy matches of any kind...
...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...