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...would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...
...tradition by which the House of Commons may squeeze information from any Cabinet member. Congress accepted with good will, and members filed into the auditorium of the Library of Congress. But when the Secretary arrived, looking as if he had just left a London tailor, their enthusiasm began to pall...
...said that it was also studying the ads of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...
...Hahn had proved himself so able a booster of sales that Hill moved him into the presidency of American's biggest subsidiary, the American Cigarette & Cigar Co. There, Hahn took on American's new, king-sized Pall Malls and pushed them so vigorously that they started a U.S. fad for longer cigarettes. In ten years Hahn has pushed Pall Mall from eighth place to fifth-in all U.S. sales, according to trade reports. Even last year, when Lucky's sales slipped, Hahn boosted Pall Mall's 21.4%. Directors hope he can do the same for Lucky...
...explosion went off at 11:55 p.m. and was of such intensity that it shook the whole building. A large pall of smoke followed the blast...