Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...
Shrewdest of all were the advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion...
...opinion of President Sowles, Trading Post was sound so far as it went; trouble was, it did not go far enough. It was selling $1,500,000 worth of groceries a year, mostly canned goods, and concessionaires were selling another $1,000,000 worth of fruits, vegetables, refrigerators, tobacco, liquor, house furnishings, men's wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows...
...love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought him out in the dusty camp just...
...reported that claims resulting from freight car thefts in the U. S. and Canada totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...