Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory, all customers have paid the same price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice, Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. made a bold move... Opening its books for second-quarter business, the No. 3 steel company of the 'land issued price lists with fixed discounts for quantity orders ranging from $1 per ton on lots...
...clouds of smoke rise ever higher...
...where there's smoke, there's always fire...
Sole excitement came at the start of the voyage when a great, smoke-like cloud suddenly covered the entire dirigible as the four crude-oil motors started. Spectators who feared the ship was afire soon learned that the cloud was only a two-year's accumulation of dust blown from the envelope in the slip stream...
...Your editorial page is too narrow," he breathed with smoke through his nostrils. "You only give one side to every question, the right side. What about the wrong side? Don't you know how much more interesting and exciting it is? Don't you realize that practically the whole world believes it, and likes it better than yours...