Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Operator. By the time he was 27, Bernie Baruch was a big-time operator himself. He earned his first big commission by buying control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan's Tobacco Trust. He bought a seat on the Exchange, made a spectacular killing by selling Amalgamated Copper short. (The stock dropped from 130 to 33⅜). He met a few sickening reverses: he once said, "I've had some losses that would make an ordinary married man go out and shoot himself." But in 1916, just before Woodrow Wilson called him to serve in World...
...almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later (in 1938) he died on his New Jersey estate...
...Transamerica has shown an interest in other things: it owns three insurance companies and, until last week (see p. 77), it controlled the West Coast's major independent finance company. Last year Transamerica added three small war babies (a foundry, two aircraft-parts manufacturers) and a tobacco company (Axton-Fisher, Fleetwood cigarets) to its portfolio. But last week embattled old A. P. was back on his old stamping grounds, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out fight to gain control of another bank...
...riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket and, for the duration, undertook to use tobacco she furnished...
They draw only regular army pay. Their weapons: forked sticks and canvas bags, goggles and a snakebite outfit. The goggles are for protection against the deadly ringhals, which not only bites but spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite...