Word: propeller
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Died. Lewis Gruber, 75, tobacco executive; in Manhattan. A crack salesman who smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day, Gruber joined the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co. in 1924, became president in 1956. His campaign promoting the Micronite filter helped propel Kent domestic sales from 3.4 billion to 36 billion in two years. Puffing at doctors' warnings, Lorillard advertising claimed "We're Tobacco Men, Not Medicine Men," prescribed Old Gold cigarettes (another company product) "For a Treat Instead of a Treatment...
Sine Qua Non. One reason for the confusion in policy is that Americans have been accustomed to act as if cheap and abundant energy were assured through eternity. Power-to heat and light buildings, propel cars and planes, keep computers and other machines purring-is the sine qua non of an industrial society. The U.S. has been consuming it far more greedily than any other nation. Americans make up 6% of the earth's population but use approximately 40% of its energy-producing fuels. According to a study by the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, the nation's energy...
...their cars, for example, Americans have increasingly demanded power-operated windows, seats and other gadgets, which require oversize engines that gulp much more gas than would be needed merely to propel the auto. There are some indications that factories may also be wasting power. Energy consumed per unit of industrial output fell steadily from 1920 through 1966, but since then it has been rising. One consequence is that the nation's known reserves of easily recoverable fuel declined in the late 1960s, at least in relation to consumption. That situation was reversed in oil last year because...
...course, sees the connection between their ambitions and the Countess' wish to re-open her decayed ancestral fief, Helmut marries the heiress, though he and his bride aspire only to sexual bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits the chance to murder the heiress and her parents, to propel him openly into prominence and wealth as savior of the Ornstein dynasty. Barbarian blood, as the old historical axiom goes, refreshes the withered, in-bred stock of effete aristocrats. In fairy-tale fashion, all who have survived live happily ever after...
...students at Los Angeles' Loyola University, the imitation of W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee seemed uncannily exact. And why not? The imitator was W.C.'s grandson Ronald, 20, who was using the act to propel his campaign for student-body president. He even paraphrased parts of his grandfather's 1940 book, Fields for President. Sample: "Many of you have asked why I am running for President when I already have a promising future as a veterinarian." Unlike Grandpa...