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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Tea & Buns. The Lyons empire of edibles was starteD in 1886 by a tobacco salesman named Montague Gluckstein, who had noted the United Kingdom's lack of cheap but decent teashops. He sold his brother Isidore and brothers-in-law Alfred and Barnett Salmon on the idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons...
...Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...
...Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...
...shipped in the last year and a quarter. ERP called for 43,250,000 metric tons of coal compared to the 85,593,000 the U.S. had shipped in the last 15-month period. Some of the raw materials would cause no strain at all, e.g., tobacco, which was in long supply...