Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exports to China were almost 50% greater than in 1927, China buying slightly more U. S. merchandise than Italy. Exports to Japan also expanded (12% over 1927), Japan outranking all the Continental countries except Germany. Chinese were enthusiastic buyers of leaf tobacco, cigarets and illuminating oil; Japan leaned toward cotton and automobiles...
...income. General was the decline in U. S. imports from Europe and Asia; general was the increase from South America. Germany showed the only major European increase, selling potash, sulphate of ammonia, hides, gloves and sulphite pulp in large quantities. Greece and Italy suffered from a decline in tobacco imports, France from decreases in silk and olive oil. The rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude petroleum sales. Chile copper and Chile sodium nitrate accounted for the Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted...
...quite top-notch but cheerfully active is a large group of hostesses who produce parties in the light-opera class. Typical of this group are: Mrs. John B. Henderson, the self-appointed social guardian of the diplomatic corps in Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold...
...family $64.10; in rural stores each person $5.95, each family $25.57. Of the total, $125,000,000 (10%) is for prescriptions, $275,000,000 (22%) for proprietary medicines, $125,000,000 (10%) for toilet articles, $175,000,000 (14%) for sodas & candies, $100,000,000 (8%) for cigars, cigarets & tobacco, $450,000,000 (36%) for sundries...
...Reynolds Tobacco...