Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion ensued lasting through lunch, coffee and cigars. On the committee was one man who tipped back his chair against the wall of the private dining room, chewed his cigar, but otherwise appeared to be in a trance. He was an Irishman, old, affluent, and warm and ripe with experience...
...Manhattan, a large, gray tomcat, "snapping and spitting as the result of an overdose of catnip," chased pedestrians, trolley cars, automobiles, was finally cornered by a patrolman in a cigar store telephone booth...
...that during a session of the Senate oil investigation I hurriedly adjourned the hearing. Selden Palmer Spencer, senior Senator from Missouri, made emphatic objection. I turned sharply, shouted: 'Let me tell you, Sir, there is a real reason why I adjourned this hearing. I do not like that cigar you puff into my face...
...principal effect of the War period upon the tobacco business has been the increased sales of cigarettes as compared with cigars. Under growing use of cigarettes by soldiers and their increasing popularity among women, consumption mounted in an astonishing manner. On the other hand, the cigar business could no longer sell its products as cheaply as before the War, and its turnover and profits remained stationary or else declined. In recent months, pipe-smoking has been coming in again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which...
...statistics of tobacco production in this country for last February bore out the above general tendencies of the trade. Production of cigarettes for that month was 4,855 million compared with 4,624 million from February, 1923, and 3,126 million over February, 1922. Cigar production, which had increased from 447 million in the second month of 1922 to 507 million in the same month of 1923, declined last February to 498 million. February in the past three years, found manufactured tobacco declined from 29,215,513 pounds in 1922 to 29,083,145 pounds last year, mounted...