Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictator funking out to save his health and-especially-his chips. The 1956 invasion of just 81 men under Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro. 32, had grown to take over an island of 6,500,000 with a yearly national income of more than $2 billion from sugar, cattle, tobacco, minerals, tourists...
...Cancer Research, the investigators describe ingenious mechanical smokers in which they burned pound after pound of pipe, cigar and cigarette tobacco. To make sure that cigarette paper is not a major factor, they had "all-tobacco" cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...
Despite continuing reports that cigarettes are the worst darn things, tobacco-men in 1958 scored their "biggest peacetime advance in 20 years." So last week in Printers' Ink wrote Consultant Harry M. Wootten, the man who knows the tobacco industry best. Sales last year, said Wootten, soared about 9% to top $4 billion; profits rose 11% to $220 million. Domestic consumption jumped to an alltime high of 430 billion cigarettes, up 5% for the year. Most important, per capita use broke the old record of 3,509 cigarettes set in 1952, just before the start of the medical reports...
...filter boom caused the greatest shake-up in the standings of cigarette companies since 1927-30, when American Tobacco's George Washington Hill doubled Lucky Strike sales and bumped R. J. Reynolds' Camel from its traditional hold on the No. 1 spot. In 1958 the story was different. Thanks to their bestselling filters, Reynolds' Chairman John Clarke Whitaker, 67, and President Bowman Gray, 51, dethroned American Tobacco as the No. 1 company for the first time since 1941. Reynolds captured 28.2% of the market v. 26.1% for American...
Though Reynolds' first-place Camel slipped .9% to 63.5 billion cigarettes in the domestic market and American Tobacco's second-place Pall Mall gained 6.4% to 58 billion, American was hurt by a 9.2% dip in sales of its third-place Lucky Strike, to 47.2 billion. Furthermore, neither of its filters-Hit Parade or Tareyton-broke into the top 15 brands. Meantime, Reynolds sped ahead on the sales of its Winston, up 5.5% to 42.3 billion, ranking it as the top-selling filter and No. 4 among all brands. Reynolds' filtered Salem also took over first place...