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...turn the ebbing tide of the cigar business, his cigarmaking subsidiary, American Cigarette and Cigar Co., had been a headache. The Pall Mall cigaret, which A. C. & C. had put out in a 15? Americanized version in 1936, fizzled despite a costly advertising campaign. So Hill borrowed Frank Rig gio's idea. He lengthened Pall Mall to King size, kept Young & Rubicam, whom he had hired in 1938, to do the advertising...
These societies are dedicated to superpatriotism. In the name of the Emperor they rig politics, liquidate moderates, break ground for military adventures, serve the Army with intrigues, keep the national fervor burning. No one knows how big the societies are, though it has been said that Mitsuru Toyama could call upon any one of 10,000 youths to murder anyone but the Emperor, and the deed would be done. The societies meet in buildings which appear to be jujitsu halls, Shinto temples, homes, business offices...
...from his carriers Illustrious and Eagle. First through the darkness went some light bombers, to drop flares and incendiaries and light up the scene for the real workmen. These were pilots of Fairey Swordfish torpedo-carrying planes, ancient-looking single-engine contraptions with enough wire between their wings to rig a hen yard. But the Swordfish, like the U. S. Navy's Douglas TBD-1, pack a terrible wallop between their nonretractable wheels. Each carrying an 18-inch torpedo, they came in low over the water, bearing down on a congregation of Fascist ships numbering well over...
Most successful wildcatter in the U. S. is young, tough Glenn H. McCarthy. His glib boast: he drills wells for nothing (i.e., very cheap), hence can't lose. Dubbed "King of the Wildcatters" by fellow Texans, Glenn was a moderately successful filling-station operator until 1933. Borrowing a rig from a friend, he drilled several failures, then struck in Big Creek and the Conroe field, sold out the latter for $50,000. From there he moved on to Anahuac in Chambers County. Drilling two and a quarter miles north of the centre of a field controlled by the majors...
McCarthy success is not mere luck. Oil men say he never knows when to stop drilling. Before McCarthy, the unwritten rule on the Gulf Coast was: "When you haven't found it after going 200 feet into the Frio (oil-indicating sand), start tearing down the rig because it just isn't there." In League City he drilled 600 feet into the Frio before finding one of the most important pay sands in Texas...