Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Markos went to Kavalla in northern Greece, a tobacco center where many wretched fellow refugees from Turkey had gathered. Markos joined the Tobacco Workers' Union and the Communist Youth Organization. Nicolas Zacha-riades had just formally transformed the Socialist-Labor Party into the KKE (Kommounistikon Komma Ellados-Hellenic Communist Party) and brought it into the Third International. From then on Markos' life was the into-jail, out-ofjail of Balkan revolutionaries. Called up for army service, he went into the cavalry. "I managed to acquire good military knowledge," he says. He also acquired a dishonorable discharge...
Philadelphia gave minor recognition to some major authors. James T. Farrells Studs Lonigan (published in three volumes, 1932, '34, '35), Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932), William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...
Last week George Hill Jr. dragged it into the open. He quit his $230,000-a-year job as vice president and fired off a blast at American's management. Hill said that American, which had once sold 15% more cigarettes than second-place Camels (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), was now barely ahead. In 1947, Camels had come up till its volume of production was only 1½% under Luckies. The fault, said he, was in the advertising, and "executive decisions with which I am in fundamental disagreement, and in the making of which I have...
There was more to the case than that. The men who know tobacco best said that Riggio, who had brought in his son Louis, 38, as assistant to the president, had gradually added to his own authority and influence at the expense of the younger Hill's. Another reason for Luckies' narrowing lead last year was the fact that Camel production had been stepped up so that Camels could stop rationing dealers, thus boosting sales. (Luckies had dropped rationing...
Courteous & Clinical. Anthropologist Gorer has spent seven years in the U.S. with British wartime missions and on the staffs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations. In comparison with the old tobacco-spitting attacks of the great English travelers -Dickens, Trollope, Captain Basil Hall -The American People is refined and respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors...