Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hazardous nowadays. The researchers learned this in an odd way: fewer of their test mice have been developing cancers. At first they thought this might be caused by a difference in mice or in laboratory methods. Then they learned that it was because manufacturers are using different types of tobacco...
...found on every continent. Frank Rizzo, 60, found his niche in Tokyo, where he now inspects and certifies Japanese imports and exports to protect buyers and sellers against future damage claims. George T. Parham, 62, left North Carolina for Southern Rhodesia as a leaf buyer for British-American Tobacco, stayed on to establish one of the world's largest tobacco auctions. Ex-Navyman Phillip Gordon, 44, arrived in Southern Rhodesia with a Jeep and $500 in 1949, is now one of the wealthiest men in British Central Africa; he has built two housing developments, owns a furniture factory...
...first drink will become an alcoholic." The cigarette company presidents were conspicuously absent, but their attorney argued that only Congress-not the FTC -has the power to order such drastic labeling rules. Other critics pointed to the apparent folly of one Government agency's attempting to cut down tobacco sales while another-the Agriculture Department-has shoveled out $100 million to subsidize tobacco...
...While tobacco advertising may be tightening up, the stiff but self-made restrictions on the advertising of whisky may be loosening. Last week one member of the National Association of Broadcasters said that it would ignore the NAB prohibition of whisky commercials. The dissenting member was none other than the prestigious radio station of the New York Times, WQXR. Soon after it pronounced that all the booze is fit to broadcast (after 10:30 p.m., anyhow) Muirhead's Scotch and Schenley bought all the available time slots, worth up to $70,000 a year...
...will build the world's first mill containing all three of the industry's major new devices for producing more steel at lower cost: oxygen furnaces, continuous casting lines and vacuum degassers (for removing impurities). At 65, Tom Millsop drives himself like a youngster. Cigar-chomping, occasionally tobacco-chewing and always gregarious, he is Tom to most of his workers. Some years ago he moonlighted as mayor of Weirton, W. Va., defeating a former union organizer by a 5-to-l margin. "That was a helluva job," he grins. "All things considered, I'd rather build...