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...southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...
Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the naval station in the name of economy. The soldiers moved away, too. Pan American Airways out of Miami took the cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line...
...West's handsome Casa Marina Hotel has not been open for two seasons. Hundreds of homes have been abandoned. A city which once had had 83 thriving business establishments was reduced to less than 25. Only one cigar factory was left from an industry which once employed 10,000 workers. A population of 18,000 has suffered a 33% reduction in ten years. Last week half the citizens of Key West were on Federal relief rolls when the City Council and officers of Monroe County petitioned Governor Sholtz to take over the local government. Poverty had whipped Key West...
...Thyselius-Lundberg, medical experimentalists of the Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm. They wanted to know whether a diabetic might smoke, and, if so, how much. In the experiments on healthy and diabetic subjects, they used Camel cigarets. As a scientific "control" the Lundbergs also used German denicotinized cigar-cigarets called Bad Toltz. Nicotine either in smoke or as a straight drug, as the Lundbergs found and other investigators already knew, stimulated the adrenal glands. The stimulated adrenals exuded adrenaline which released sugar, which in turn was burned in the form of additional energy...
Least of his differences from "the ferocious cigar-chewing men" who taught him his trade was that he usually played an independent hand in his speculations. More than that, he had a philosophical as well as a speculative cast of mind. After his killing in Amalgamated Copper, when he was only 32, he seriously considered retiring with his profits to study law and enter public life as a reform politician. For gambling for gambling's own peculiar thrill he had no love. His speculations were for profit only. More than that he was a speculator on moral principle...