Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have argued that there could be no real proof until comparison was made between groups of smokers and nonsmokers who are identical in all other major respects. Some have insisted that the villain in the lung-cancer picture is industrial air pollution. This week, under Los Angeles' smoggy pall, researchers reported on a study designed to refute both arguments...
...FILTER will be offered by American Tobacco Co. on one of its cigarettes (Hit Parade, Tareyton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike). Industry rumor: filter will be double, with one part charcoal...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will be joined by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), 43rd U.S. company to enter. Reynolds' sales in 1957 topped $1 billion for first time, due largely to Winston. But Reynolds is still trailing the $1.1 billion American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Hit Parade...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...
...banks of West Germany's Rhine and Moselle Rivers tend their vineyards with loving care and pray fervently that the inexplicable magic of sun, rain and vines will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook for fine Liebfraumilch, Niersteiner Domthal and other famed...