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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than ?2,000 ($5,600) a year and therefore pay a surtax on top of their regular income tax. It was the first break surtax payers have had since 1920. Said Thorneycroft: "We are determined that in the society which we seek to create there should always be room...
Thousands of Americans over 40 who conscientiously have regular medical checkups are getting a clean bill of health when actually they are suffering from an insidious disease that may cause blindness. So said a Memphis ophthalmologist last week at a sight-saving conference* in Manhattan. The often overlooked disease: glaucoma. Reported the University of Tennessee's Dr. Margaret Horsley, after a five-month 'study just completed at the John Gaston Hospital's clinics: 44 cases of glaucoma were found among patients who did not suspect that they had anything wrong with their eyes...
...Celtics had won their other games by using a fast break and running the Hawks ragged. Now the Hawks stole Boston's strategy and ran with the Celtics every inch of the way. They were still running when the regular game ended 103-103. The first overtime period only pushed the tie to 113-113. In the second overtime, the Celtics finally decided that if St. Louis was going to steal their strategy, they might as well try the one trick that had always worked for the Hawks. With their San Francisco import, big Bill Russell, grabbing every rebound...
...Filters. As smokers switched, the phenomenal growth of filters sparked the industry's comeback. While sales of regular cigarettes have continued to drop since 1952, filters have risen from 1% of the market in 1952 to 30% last year, are heading for 40% in 1957. More than a dozen new filter brands have been put on the market in the past five years, and almost every one has moved up fast in the sales race. Reynolds' Winston, fifth-ranked in 1955, last year took over fourth place from Chesterfield. (Regular and king sizes are classified separately.) Liggett & Myers...
...filter boom is doubly gratifying to manufacturers. Filter cigarettes sell for 2? to 10? a pack more than regulars, but cost less to produce. Chief reason: they use a low-grade, high-nicotine, heavy-bodied tobacco to get the taste through to the smoker. This darker, heavier leaf wholesales for only 42? a Ib. (up from 25? before the big switch to filters), but far less than the 62? a Ib. for the lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same...