Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest daughter, born just after the La Follette campaign, is named after his old running mate and his adopted State-Marion Montana. He also has a home in Butte, a summer place in Glacier National Park. In Washington he drives an Auburn, is not socially ambitious. Cigars are his smoke. Like most Westerners, he hunts and fishes...
...Kempf who was a passenger. But then his watch might have stopped during the night. At 1 a. m., said another passenger; at 1:10 a. m., said a third who saw people stamping out a wastepaper fire in the writing room. At 2:55 a. m., said a smoke-room steward who found a blaze in a writing room locker...
...them leave until they have to!" The assistant went below just long enough to pass along these instructions, then turned and "ran for his life." Chief Abbott's tour took him to the bridge. He said Captain Warms saw he was suffering from the smoke, ordered him to take off in No. 1 boat. He did. Steward Bernard Kopf who was in the boat said he heard an order from the bridge: "Don't lower those boats!" But Chief Abbott cried: "Lower away! For God's sake, lower away!" In that boat were 32 of the crew...
Second Operator George Ignatius Alagna made two fiery trips from the radio shack to the bridge to get instructions. On the bridge he found members of the crew "running around." Chief George W. Rogers stood by. In the torrid darkness some of his batteries exploded, smoke dazed him. He thought: "If I am supposed to be dying it doesn't hurt very much. . . . I'm just getting sleepy." On his second trip from the bridge, Assistant Alagna brought authority for the SOS. He helped Rogers to safety...
Tobacco ranks sixth in the value of U. S. field crops, fifth in U. S. exports and most of it goes up in smoke. Usually the crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing...