Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from the Folies-Bergère and smoke-damaged goods from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus-at cut-rate prices that are automatically trimmed 25% after twelve selling days, 50% after 18, 75% after 24. If unsold after a month, the goods are given to charity...
FROM United States Tobacco Co. came an announcement this week that it has changed the filter and tobacco of its King Sano brand so that the smoke now carries "26% less tar than any other cigarette." Of ten major brands in fierce competition for the filter-cigarette business, five claim that their filters filter best-and each backs its claim with an impressive array of tests. The argument over which to believe has interested the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Says Congressman John A. Blatnik, chairman of a House subcommittee that investigated cigarette advertising: "There are so many claims...
Machines draw on cigarettes less frequently, often smoke less tobacco than a fast-puffing, heavy smoker-just the man who needs protection most. King Sano's test smokes little more than half the cigarette's 85-mm. length, also measures only that amount of tar which dissolves in chloroform, misses a lot. The Foster D. Snell labs, which test for Reader's Digest, told the Blatnik subcommittee that the chloroform extraction method measures only 69% of the tar in smoke. On the other hand, Snell tests only 45 cigarettes of each brand...
Philip Morris (Parliament, Marlboro) and Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) test all cigarettes down to a bare inch of butt. Other companies criticize this system because it produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found that "solids" include tar, nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps...
...Corporate dividends for seven months ending in July amounted to $6,271,000,-000, a decline of less than 1% from $6,312,500,000 paid out in the same period of 1957, despite all the smoke and fire over reduced earnings. ¶ Department store sales for July climbed to 140% of the 1947-49 average, up from 133% in June. At the new level sales are only four points below the alltime record set a year ago this month. ¶ Steel production was scheduled to rise for the sixth consecutive week to 61.4% of capacity, reflecting an earlier-than...