Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last decade, sales of filter cigarettes have leaped from less than 1% to more than half of all U.S. cigarettes sold. Filters rescued the industry from a skid six years ago when the first cancer-cigarette studies were widely publicized, helped sell a record 456 billion cigarettes last year. They also touched off a heated controversy on their advertising claims of reduced tar and nicotine. Last week FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner announced that all cigarette makers had agreed to end the tar derby by dropping claims to filter effectiveness, taking the health pitch out of their...
...Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right now is to issue the paychecks on Friday-if there's enough money in the bank...