Word: bacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant young bastard from the West Indies named Alexander Hamilton. Banks were new even in Europe but this 27-year-old veteran of the Revolution knew all the banking there was to know. It took a pocket full of depreciated paper money to buy a twist of to bacco or a cannikin of rum and people had long talked of a bank whose stock would be subscribed in land. But Hamilton's bank was to be a specie bank or no bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with...
Habana y Trenton. American Cigar Co., now a subsidiary of American To bacco Co., last week was jumping the U. S. tariff wall. The duty on finished cigars is greater than that on raw tobacco, so certain of American Cigar's factories are being moved to Trenton, N. J., where it is expected that better labor conditions will also lower production costs. The raw tobacco will be cured, processed, stripped, blended and rolled in Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled...
Reason for Reynolds' record lay partly in the depression-resist nature of the to bacco business, partly in the Camel boom resulting from the famed humidor (cello phane) pack. Introduced Jan. 2. 1931. to the accompaniment of a $50,000 prize contest for most moving description of its advantages, the cellophane-wrapped Camel occupied the cigaret-publicity spot light which George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. had previously almost monopolized. Exactly 952.228 U. S. citizens submitted letters testifying to Humidor Pack merit...
...WITH OLD COLDS. "Open up a pack of Old Colds. . . . Smell the to- bacco. . . . You can't because there isn't any tobacco...