Word: palled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Design (Sammy Kaye; Victor). The celebrated boo-eeps of Pall Mall's radio plug. Listeners to the record are supposed to join in with their own boo-eeps, as Sammy Kaye's audiences...
Over the little town of Eastman, Ga. lay the dead pall of fear and hatred that comes over Southern towns when everybody knows what is going to happen. In the town square, hard-eyed, determined men came together, waiting for darkness. There was going to be a lynching...
...pall of smoke was reported over Leningrad. A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes. A German reporter in a Stuka said well: "There is nothing but confusion beneath us." In those seven days one fact stood up gaunt and real as the remains of a bombed wall. The Russians admitted on the third day that they had lost 374 planes while they had shot down 381 German planes...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...with a new plant in Brooklyn and $175,000 in machinery, sold 800,000,000 Regents, a 300% increase over 1939 and enough (even with Regents' high-cost cardboard box) to net him a profit. But George Hill was by now far ahead. His two entries, Tareyton and Pall Mall, blanketed 70% of the new market...