Word: strickman
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...TIME is happy to print President Finch's rebuttal, but the conclusion was formed by Robert Strickman, and clearly attributed...
...Your story "Smoking & Safety" [Sept. 1] misleads in regard to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. On Aug. 25 we tested some filters made by the Strickman group in order to be informed of the present state of development. Such testing does not indicate, as you aver, that Brown & Williamson is now "satisfied with the Strickman device." That is a conclusion that you formed without any verification from...
...habitual smoker who was dissatisfied with al most everything he heard before the subcommittee was Kentucky's Thruston Morton, a Senator with his tobacco-farming constituents' interests at heart. Throughout, he sat with a dyspeptic scowl for the medical experts and a curiously unsympathetic attitude toward the Strickman filter, which, if proved effective, could prove a Golconda for his planters. "O.K.," snapped Morton, "we'll all stop smoking, and you'll upset the economy...
Though he will not discuss his formula, Strickman said from his hospital room that cigarettes with his filter will "draw" perfectly well. "I took a form of the same filter material to Brown & Williamson," he said, "but I never entered their laboratories. They were' not interested. Since then I have made some adjustments to make it draw more easily...
...present, he said, at least six cigarette manufacturers-including Brown & Williamson-are satisfied with the Strickman device in its present state of development. Even B. & W. last week was testing the filter, and Inventor Strickman himself said that one com pany has already delivered a contract...