Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Table of Contents. In Simcoe, Ont., police arrested Anthony Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...
...last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
...American Tobacco Co., which he headed for 20 years, the late George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill left some famous slogans and a poser: How would the company do without his lurid, armor-piercing salesmanship? Part of the solution was left to George Washington Hill Jr., whose loud advertis ing talents were learned from his father...
...American Tobacco passed up George Washington Hill Jr., now 39, when it came to making a new president 18 months ago. To succeed old man Hill the directors picked Vincent Riggio, 71, who was vice president in charge of sales. Un der Riggio, Lucky Strike advertising went along as noisily as before, but Luckies' sales were no longer as good as they should have been. There was talk of trouble in the biggest tobacco company in the world...
...aide, K. C. Adams, worked over his chewing tobacco and spat copiously into a spittoon as Lewis waved a copy of last year's contract. "We have the bond," John thundered. "Do we get the ducats?" This week, a little ahead of time, his miners began to walk...