Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suspicion of Cuban reserves dates back to an 1880 incident involving an unfortunate Chinese. Digging a water well in Motembo for his master, he presumably stopped for a smoke, at any rate was blown to bits. Promptly forming a company, his master drilled three 900-foot holes on the site, brought in Cuba's first gushers, each producing distillate. Geologists thought this shallow production came from a deeper and much larger reservoir, but drilling equipment was inadequate and nothing further was done about...
...does not smoke, drink, gamble. Nor does he dance on Sundays. His dancing is bad anyway, so no one misses it, but the few girls he has been known to take out have found him too earnest for their taste. Dull he may be to debutantes, but Wall Street finds him vastly interesting...
...were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were all on fire. Smoke hung over the high Sierras as far as Reno. Nev. It blinded forest lookouts, prevented them from spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia's history, swept unchecked over 100,000 acres...
...feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long, two-and-a-half stories high, uses electricity sufficient to illuminate a city of 5,000, will cost P. Lorillard & Co. $5,000 a month...
...night last week, after work had been suspended for the day, watchmen passed through the air lock of the north tube, opened the door leading to the boring shield, were met by a blast of smoke. Inside a great, licking blaze, whetted by the high oxygen content of the compressed air, was feeding on timbers, sawdust and salt hay in the unfinished bore. Backing out through the lock, they found the telephone short-circuited, the elevator not running, had to climb ten flights of stairs up the ventilating shaft to sound an alarm...