Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
...chicle, chicle" or "cigarette" that generally haunt the U.S. Navy elsewhere in foreign ports. "What's the matter with these fellows, anyhow?" asked Chief Warrant Officer Milburn ("Duke") Holmes of North Platte, Neb. "They won't accept our cigarettes and want us to smoke their smelly black tobacco. I haven't been able to pay for a glass of sherry in town-but they sure look as if they could use some extra money or some food...
...snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers to movie stars, were astoundingly successful sales plugs. ("Fifty million women a week see movies," explained one adman. "They see these dames always get their man, so they want to use Lux soap...
...publisher of both the morning Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal (circ. 49,048) and the afternoon Twin City Sentinel (circ. 33,205), Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray has a newspaper monopoly-and it worries him. Back in 1937 when he was 29 and a millionaire tobacco heir, Gray and a syndicate of big businessmen wanted to start a newspaper to compete with the Journal and Sentinel monopoly. He ended up buying the two papers for more than $1,000,000 when the owner threw in the towel. Gray still wishes Winston-Salem (pop. 90,000) could afford two independent papers...
Gray has insisted on widening discussion beyond his own views. Once a headline in one of the Gray papers called cigarettes "coffin tacks." That angered Publisher Gray's Uncle James, who is chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray...