Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press had published 3,752 names, had a few thousand more to go, and was snowed under with protests and praise. It had a growing file of signers who said there had been some mistake (they thought it was a petition for Palestine partition, or against the city anti-smoke law, or against war; two confessed that "I was drunk at the time...
...decorating job, Dorothy Draper, Inc. got $120,000. To the C. & O., this was only part of the worry. After redoing the local station on the C. & O. line, Mrs. Draper demanded that no smoke-belching locomotives be allowed within five miles of the place. But the coal-burning C. & O. put its foot down, let the steamers on through...
...quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
...Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...
...family in a cabin. The leader shouted: "Come out, you McCoys, an' surrender as prisoners o' war." The besieged refused; the besiegers set the cabin on fire, killed two McCoys, gave up shooting only when they found that Old Randolph himself had ducked away through the smoke...