Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gold Room of the Roosevelt Hotel, the atmosphere matched the dismal day. The air grew thick with tobacco smoke, thick with angry words. The 175 top officers of the United Steelworkers were cooking up a strike already approved by their membership. After meeting all day they came to a decision: the strike would start...
...Civil servants went on strike in France. Two million strong, they walked out one day between 4 and 6 p.m., halted subways and busses, stopped tobacco sales, isolated the Foreign Office and otherwise brought bureaucracy to a standstill. They wanted a monthly pay raise of 1,000 francs ($20). Hurriedly Big Bureaucrats drafted wage increases for Little Bureaucrats...
...halls of Fayerweather and South Fayerweather, that smelled only of beer and pipe tobacco, now exude faint traces of Prince Matchabelli perfume. The battered furniture, handed down for cash from generation to generation, has been junked for double beds, ruffled curtains, flowered drapes and potted plants. Hot plates glow busily under home-cooked dinners. Dartmouth plans to erect a lattice fence to hide the disturbing sight of bras and panties drying on the clothesline...
...Senate caucus room, clouds of tobacco smoke curled up through the hard glare of the Klieg lights, staining the air blue. The 100 newspapermen, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder at press tables that boxed the witnesses in on three sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy paper, overflowing ashtrays. Under the tables their shifting feet smudged their piled-up coats and hats. Off to one side were 18 radio reporters sitting along the wall; behind them were the newsreel boys, their cameras whirring monotonously...
Died. Ralph Holmes, 30, wartime Army airman, actor brother of Actor Phillips Holmes (killed in a 1942 R.C.A.F. crash), son of Old Trouper Taylor Holmes, second husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (who was cleared of the 1932 shooting of her first husband, Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds); of barbiturate poisoning (apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets); in Manhattan...