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...although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing the weed, and a golden harvest has poured into...
First would come the expansion of heavy industry (steel, etc.), then of textiles, glass, leather and paper goods, to bacco, oil for consumers. The Indian capitalists who sponsored the plan pointed to the U.S.S.R., recalled that the Russians had to do without the things people like to buy while getting a start in basic production...
...told me "when I got ready" (usually about 3:30 a.m.), never had any trouble with his eyes, digestion, or with any part of his bodily frame. When he was $1, he told me he had never had to give up anything whatever in food, drink, to bacco, etc. His only recreation was reading murder stories, some of which I introduced...
...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...