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...closed to a yard or less; one Chinese movie cameraman got so excited that he fired for half an hour with all three of his lenses capped. Some of the Communists relaxed to the extent of returning a smile. But several refused U.N. cigarettes and one turned away to spit on the ground...
Machine-made cigars have been old stuff in the U.S. ever since the late George Washington Hill, master huckster, coined the advertising slogan, "SPIT is a horrid word, but it's worse on the end of your cigar." Until Hill and his machine-made Cremos, the U.S. had happily smoked stogies rolled by hand. It was Hill's contention that cigar makers' saliva held the stogies together at their tip, but cigar makers insisted that they used vegetable...
...think, is that they inform the people of the things they can all do. For instance, how they can arrange a stove chimney so that the family won't get CO poisoning, why one should go to the toilet and not on the ground, why one should not spit on the floor, etc. Many of the health posters in the U. S. say to see your dentist twice a year, see your doctor, but for people without money this is of no use. Our posters tell what the people can do themselves. For things like TB, we tell the people...
Threat of Flood. The Hwachon dam, 275 ft. high and Korea's third largest, lies at the end of a spit of land shaped like a camel's head, between the western arm of the reservoir and a bend of the Pukhan River. U.S. officers knew that if the Chinese opened the dam's 18 sluice gates simultaneously, they would create a bothersome flood in the Pukhan valley; if they shattered the dam with explosives, a terrible wall of water, 50 to 60 ft. high, would plunge down the valley and cut the U.N. line...
...anything nearly as rich." é"Good taste is a great curse to the nation. It spells only one thing, an inferiority complex. People can't afford bad taste because it means they're jerks, that they don't belong. If this keeps up, no one will spit on the floor any more." é"It's a good life, being a painter. You can live like a millionaire; off to the country for the summer, back to the city in the winter. Art is just love, that's all; when I'm messing paint around...