Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel shy about spitting their tobacco juice in a lady's presence. The Greatest Club will be changed...
...rise of moonfaced Morton Downey, who has earned $4,500 a week with his ballading ever since young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System used him to lure Camel's cigaret advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched her up for a sum appropriate to her size. Joe White ("The Silver-Masked Tenor"), Jack Smith ("The Whispering Baritone") and B. A. Rolfe (Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra) prove...
...Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker of 25% of the tin -cans in the British Isles. The smaller part of Continental's output (30%) is in "general line cans" used for drugs, oils, paints and tobacco. Greater part of American's .output (55%) is in "packers' cans" used for edibles...
There is practically no drinking among women but they smoke profusely. Although surprisingly good Russian cigarettes can be purchased with foreign money, the Russians themselves cannot get good tobacco with their rubles and are delighted to obtain American cigarettes. Their unusual fondness for Camels makes it seem at first that here is a people whose choice among the brands of American cigarettes is based on something more substantial than advertising slogans and endorsements from Hollywood. French discovered, however, that it is really the picture of the camel, not any inherent superiority, which fascinates them...
Improvement, Small but perceptible was an improvement in employment noted by the U. S. Department of Labor for September. More jobs, longer hours were found in coal mining, shoemaking, tobacco production, textile manufactures. Stagnant as the month preceding were the steel and motor industries...