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Word: tarring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, a Federal Trade Commission smoking machine has been puffing manfully on 59 different types and sizes of cigarettes representing 23 different brand names. Results of the tests last week produced the first Government-established levels of cigarette tar and nicotine content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Tar, Nicotine & Butts | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...varieties, 70-mm. Marvel filters came out with least tar (3.9 milligrams in each cigarette) and nicotine (0.12 mg.), while non-filtered, 85-mm. Chesterfields ranked tops in tar (28.6 mg.) and 13th highest in nicotine (1.54 mg.). The ten bestselling cigarettes showed the following yields, in increasing order of tar content, when smoked down to the indicated "butt length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Tar, Nicotine & Butts | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Brand & Length Type* Tar Nicotine Butt Length

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Tar, Nicotine & Butts | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...over the South you can see them--convict and workers in gray fatigues, trousers with faded white stripes down the leg and always a rifle-toting guard lounging nearby. They chop grass, pick up garbage, and tar highways under the sun and the swirling dustclouds. Look inside the chain gang and you will find a caricature of middle class American society: duties and pleasures are meticulously ordered and scheduled, "Learn the rules" is the old con's advice. And it is good advice, for the road camp is a world of regulations, conformity, and menacing authority...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Cool Hand Luke | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...Tar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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