Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windfall that is a well-cooked meal. Old campaigners will appreciate Gary's admiring definition of an old soldier, later echoed by Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man: "A man who always has something eatable in his haversack and drinkable in his bottle, a reserve of tobacco and matches, a warm hole to sleep...
Warm spring thunderstorms flicked lightning across the sky, crackled, then poured soft rain on Havana's tree-shaded streets. Sea birds screeched and wheeled, and lovers ran to cover from the concrete sea wall along Malecon drive. The air smelled, as always, of strong tobacco and stronger coffee. Most of the prostitutes and pimps that used to degrade the city were gone, cleaned out by Fidel Castro's moralistic revolution. In eastern Santiago, teen-agers danced in the streets to the latest Afro-Cuban rhythm, a hip-buster called the pachanca...
...major media was General Motors ($110.6 million), which ousted Procter & Gamble ($105.6 million) from lead. Others, according to rank: Ford Motor Co. ($61.7 million), General Foods ($61 million), Lever Brothers ($57 million), American Home Products ($52 million), Colgate-Palmolive ($50 million), Chrys ler ($47 million), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco ($39 million) and American Tobacco ($35 million...
...merge if he can build it up into a desirable property. This week he will start to salvage Capital by shaking up its second-echelon executives. Next, he hopes to get rid of Capital's money-losing feeder routes. Says he: "If we were relieved of our Tobacco Road route and the feeder-line system, Capital could make money...
...Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat went farther: when they had grown in tobacco plants a good supply of mutated virus, they analyzed its protein and found that it was not quite the same as the protein of normal virus. And in the specialized world of biochemistry this was exciting news. Other chemically induced mutations have shown themselves as changes of behavior, which cannot be described chemically. Now the effect of the change in the virus's RNA can be seen as a definite chemical change in its protein...