Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selling cheap and advertising dear is the standard formula for making big money out of cigarets. The big Three-Camel, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike-wholesale for $6.10 per 1,000, of which $3 is Federal tax. Because they cannot afford to lose their mass markets they must pour many more millions into advertising than less popular brands. And because each of them sells upwards of 30 billion cigarets a year, they can afford...
...chorus until new Premier Leon Blum's Cabinet finally had to make rebuttal. To Deputy Gaston-Gérard's specific, constructive proposal that a cheapened 'tourist franc' be introduced, the Cabinet returned a flat "non" merely promised to spend a little more "pour encourager le tourisme...
...Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace vacationing in Colorado, the AAA continued to amend its soil conservation program, permitting farmers to cut for forage soil-depleting crops hitherto condemned to be plowed under...
...million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour la Restauration des Monuments...
...that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm day, when the meet started last fortnight, a warm summer wind began to pour across the green Chemung ridges. Results...