Word: packs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reynolds Co. raised the price of its cigarettes-Camels will cost an extra cent a pack-and other major tobacco companies followed. Some textile prices had risen as much as 22%.* Emerson and Du Mont announced higher prices for their television sets. Rubber climbed upward and tire manufacturers increased their prices 5% to 12½%. Gasoline was up 2? a gallon...
...sticky, midsummer night air of the U.S. last week the fans were turning out in droves for a new national pastime: stock-car racing. Sheer speed was not the point; nobody was after records. The main idea was to pack 20 or 25 hopped-up cars on a tight, sharply-turned little quarter-mile track, and let them go for the bacon. The result was motor madness -a deafening combination of roaring engines and screeching tires, cars careening against each other or spinning into fences at 60 m.p.h...
...Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway-New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York...
...unique, different," boasted Chairman of the New York District Ford Dealers Ralph Horgan of his three-hour show. "We begin with a comedy, then comes a cowboy picture. Then, after you pack the kiddies off to bed, you have your sports newsreel and feature film [this week: Major Barbara, a 1941 British-made picture starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller...
...jury, Author Trollope has haled half of England into his novel-including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...