Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story down. They made a lucky strike when they ran into North Carolina's Reynolds. Senator Reynolds, never one to hide his light under a bushel, admitted that he had endorsed Lucky Strikes, collected $1,000. Newshawks were surprised for two reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could not recall seeing Senator Reynolds smoke any brand but Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked Camels but he assured questioners that he did smoke and enjoy Lucky Strikes on occasion. No other Lucky Strike-endorsing...
...owned by Fred Jungbluth of Madison, Wis., piloted by Carl Bernard. Its best speed over the 12-mile windward-leeward course was 31 min. 51 sec. Class B (250 ft.) was won by Su-Jac III, Pilot H. V. Fitzcharles of Lake Geneva, Wis. Class C (175 ft.): Holy Smoke III, Pilot Don Campbell of Delavan, Wis. Skeeter winner: Gale, Pilot Harry Nye of Chicago...
...beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...California when one afternoon last week the Federal Fruit Frost Service sent out a warning that during the night the mercury would dive farther below freezing than it had for 24 years. Frantic men with torches went rushing through the citrus groves lighting great smudge pots, from which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles, of 12° in the Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke...
...last week for the first time they were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over the prisoners' box were changed every 30 minutes of the otherwise leisurely proceedings. There were the usual tall glasses of smoking hot tea without which ponderous Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky could never have got through all the years in which they have gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice...