Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly unwilling to accept the notion that where there is smoke there is cancer. Although scientists keep on diligently assembling statistical data on the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the American tobacco industry has bounced back from its 1953-54 slump, is puffing contentedly over big sales and expansion plans. See BUSINESS, Complete Recovery. One reason why Americans are smoking again more or less fearlessly is that they see safety in filters. Starting from practically nowhere, filter cigarettes have now taken over nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist...
...world's 400 million Moslems, Ramadan is the crudest month. From the moment in the predawn light when a white thread can be distinguished from a black, through each long day until sunset, they must not smoke, drink, eat, or indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan Mohammed V moved with the kind of inner calm that is his special quality. He retired to a small room to pray, then sat down to break his fast...
...taste through to the smoker. This darker, heavier leaf wholesales for only 42? a Ib. (up from 25? before the big switch to filters), but far less than the 62? a Ib. for the lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same amount of tar. Tobacco geneticists recently developed an exceptionally light, low-nicotine leaf that would have once been hailed as the tobaccoman's dream. But makers say it lacks the taste to sell, and so it is piling...
...Culligan, Inc. of Northbrook, Ill. introduced a new water-softener appliance by setting up giant faucets with running water outside assembly halls at eight regional sales conventions. Inside each darkened hall, a single spotlight fell on a stage curtain which parted dramatically with an explosion and cloud of smoke to reveal the new gadget. The shows cost $35,000. But they were worth it. They netted $1,000,000 in orders...
...Twenty. Engineer Tucker won his academic spurs-and his first crack at public service-by specializing in industrial problems, notably the elimination of St. Louis' then-notorious smog. In the late '303, while serving a stint as smoke commissioner, he drafted and helped fight through to victory the city's model smoke ordinance. (His solution: cut down on the amount of volatile material used in industrial fuel.) Named chairman of Washington University's department of mechanical engineering in 1942, he kept serving political stints, e.g., as head of a freeholder committee that drafted a modern city...