Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko...
...Chicago a convention of the Na tional Association of Purchasing Agents studied signs of a different color. Said Roy Haberkern, vice president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "We are told that within six months after the mills get into full operation steel backlogs will be wiped out and a highly competitive market will develop...
Herb's pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
...funds had been appropriated for the A.F. of L.'s push for 1,000,000 new recruits. No new organizers would be hired. The cadre of A.F. of L.'s new legions would be built around platoons now in the field: building-trades locals, truckers, printers, longshoremen, tobacco workers...
...announced business of the convention was to make ''one big union" out of six C.I.O. and one independent maritime unions.† But hardly had the 240 delegates seated themselves in the tobacco-fogged auditorium of San Francisco's Eagles Hall last week before they began to function as a strike strategy committee...