Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation was, of course, still surviving all these misfortunes. And September had showed a slight pick-up in employment. Bank failures were disappearing. Here & there factory chimneys began to smoke again. After many a false alarm business seemed in the act of struggling back to its feet. But there was abroad in the land a spirit of unrest such as the country had not known since the War. Then the spirit had been directed outward, against a foreign enemy. Now it was an internal trouble, the country contemplating itself...
...centers' average to 5% or 6% of the national total. By May Wings had slowed the decline in national cigaret production which had been going on all year. Wings did not advertise in newspapers, but blurbs on the cheap brown paper package told smokers that they could not smoke Cellophane. In June arrived the fourth national 10? cigaret- Twenty Grand, also from Louisville. Its sales soon passed those of White Rolls and Paul Jones, ran the ten-centers percentage up to 15. Last week that percentage was 20. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. was making 18 million Twenty Grands...
...Carbondale, Pa. On the way back to New York his automobile caught fire. While the car burned Trainer Heckler worked to save his fleas, removing jar after glass jar from his suitcase, unscrewing the caps to give his pets fresh air. All rallied from the effects of the smoke except Paddy. Next night he was listless, refused his hoop. Next night he was dead...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
...Will our beloved Stanford rough drop into the limbo of forgotten might? Will we see no more paper airplanes sailing in the Assembly Hall? For surely a freshman smooth enough to resist the attacks of those veteran Encina salesmen could never become rough enough to go unshaven and smoke a cigar...