Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shifts in Britain's $3.6 billion tobacco industry have bankers and investors doing a not-so-slow burn. It all began when a fight for control of Gallaher Ltd., the industry's second largest company ($940 million in annual sales, 27% of the market), turned into an all-American battle between Philip Morris and American Tobacco Co. With more and more of their industries being bought out by U.S. corporations, Britons were scarcely cheered to see another such move. What bothered them more was the way the takeover was handled. With the aid of two prestigious British financial...
...from the boots of returning officers. Walt Whitman watched the scene in the barroom and wrote angrily: "Sneak, blow, put on airs there in Willard's sumptuous parlors and barrooms, or anywhere-no explanation will save you. Bull Run is your work." Prices at the hotel's tobacco stand made Woodrow Wilson's Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, huff: "What this country needs is a good 5? cigar...
...Ward contended. "It just means getting richer slower between Christmas and Easter, and that includes Lent. Let us tuck away in one corner of our Christian memory the delicious fact that the English-and French-speaking members of the Atlantic world spend $50 billion a year on drink and tobacco...
...different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home-run honors with the Cincinnati Reds (16 in 1901) and the Detroit Tigers (seven in 1908). His total of 312 triples set a record that has yet to be broken-even Willie Mays, now in his 18th season, has only...
Crushed Argument. There are other Bobbys within that slim, taut, toothy exterior. If Michael Harrington discovered America's poor, Kennedy adopted them ?not only in the urban ghettos, where the votes are, but also in the shacks of grape pickers, in the hillbilly hollers, along the rutted tobacco roads. He can communicate with the disinherited as few others of his race or rank are able to do. He can maul a William Manchester, then have the author serve as honorary chairman of a Kennedy for President club. He can be morose or merry, expansive or petty, merciless or magnanimous?...