Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that if all the tea which the world produces each year were stacked up it would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels, Adman William Esty of Manhattan was now out to cure them with the cups that cheer but not inebriate...
...General Feng's army, the Kuominchun, was in its early days the best disciplined force in the Chinese Army. The men were not allowed to smoke or drink. And at one time all prostitutes and opium-dealers were expelled from any city in which they were stationed. This was not always the case, however, for a member of my staff who visited Kalgan during the Kuominchun occupation brought me back a packet of opium sealed with the official 'chop' of the Kuominchun tax-collecting bureau, and reported that a new method of dealing with houses of prostitution...
...devious trail with piles of red herrings. Though Author-Detective Neumann found many & many a document missing or unobtainable, most witnesses untrustworthy or disingenuous, he has succeeded in piecing together the sinister tale of a completely irresponsible, destructive career, in showing that where there was so much international smoke there must have been some Greek fire. No coldly lucid exposition but an avowed attempt to get the goods on Zaharoff, the book soon has the reader goggle-eyed, leaves him swimmy-headed and reeling in a tangled jungle of economic-diplomatic chicanery...
Some matters like television and smoke elimination are already overdue, while others such as the synthesis of living matter and the explanation of old age may not be realized for thousands of years. Thus, despite his title, it is no cocky portrait of 2035 that Author Furnas paints. "We cannot see the goal," he observes, "but we can see the nearer sections of the road leading to it. After all, that is the part that interests us most. . . . We need something better than leather, and a raincoat that lets body moisture out. We need road surfaces that will last...
Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three...