Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representatives of 71,000 North Carolina tobacco growers met last week in Raleigh's Sir Walter Hotel, they filled the air with their troubles as well as tobacco smoke. The drought had hit most of them hard, postponed the harvest a full two months; growers in the state were hustling to get the big leaves into their curing barns before the first frost came. Moreover, the quality of this year's crop had suffered, and prices were down. To Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, the growers sent their suggestion for a cure: acreage allotments for 1954 should...
...short, instead of scaring customers away from competing brands, the tobacco companies seemed to be scaring them away from tobacco altogether. Editorialized the Raleigh News & Observer: "It still seems a little odd that those who most emphasize the possible bad effects of cigarettes on people are the cigarette manufacturers themselves...
ROBERT L. WENDT Raleigh...
...Roman Catholic priests in the diocese of Raleigh, N.C. got a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters which in one stroke ended...
...local controversy over a "miracle cure" in Raleigh...