Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western...
Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months...
...Carmarthen, 75, tallest (6 ft. 7 in.) member of the House of Lords; at his estate in Wales. Onetime head of 43 shipping companies operating 560 ships of 2,800,000 gross tons, he went to jail in 1931 for stating falsely the condition of his Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., was released in 1932 for good conduct, but with his health broken...
...found a way to eke out their $30-per-week pay. They had been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package of currency contained fewer bills than the number marked on the attached teller's slip, the four old checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill or two they pocketed the difference, marked the stack O.K. So rare and trifling were the tellers' mistakes from which they profited that it was a long time before their superiors grew suspicious. Then the Secret Service planted packages of marked bills, caught the four...
...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...