Word: flues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
...Shield was the high scorer for the Jayvees, tallying 17 points, while Mike De Leo played a flue game on the defense. Daly dropped 14 markers through the hoop for the visitors...
...Manhattan, and in Governor-Elect Thomas E. Dewey's home in Pawling, N.Y. The columnist's fire started in a secret washroom (its door a swinging bookcase), burned up 600 books, smoked her out for the night. The Governor-elect's fire spread from a defective flue in the fireplace; firemen chopped a hole in the side of the house...
...burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...tobacco auction, where, he charged, Big Three operations deprive the individual farmer of all bargaining power. When 1,602,000 farmers bring their produce to the warehouses, Big Three buyers snap up two-thirds to three-fourths of all their burley tobacco, 30-40% of all their flue-cured crop (the rest being mainly exported). In any given auction, said the Government, Big Three buyers fail to bid seriously against each other (though no one will attend a market unless the other two are there). In some cases, they walk ahead of the auctioneer, are awarded their chosen baskets...