Word: palled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hill had devoted his whole life to his company (Lucky Strike, Bull Durham, Pall Mall) with a fanaticism which a former associate once described as being "like a missionary's devotion to Jesus." The cigaret-smoking world was his oyster, and he irritated it into producing rich profits. In his 20-year tenure as American Tobacco's president, he ran the company as a one-man show, boosted sales from $153,000,000 to $558,000,000 a year, earned an average of close to $500,000 a year in salaries and bonuses...
...Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings) in 1941 because Hill demanded too much service...
...take on only one more client this year. Admen wondered who the new client would be. Into S.S.C.&B. this week went another R.&R. vice president, 38-year-old William Spire. His job at R.&R.: account executive for the $3 million account of the American Tobacco Co. (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike...
...Under a Pall. Hiroshima had once harbored 344.000 people, thousands more in the adjacent quartermaster depot...
...antiaircraft guns on a dozen ships opened up at once. Five Japs fell flaming into the sea, three of them victims of the Ti's own guns, but the sixth, though he was burning in three places, plowed straight into the Ti's smoke pall...