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Word: tobacco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have here in Porto Rico such advertising, with this legend: "Fume el tabaco que su tierra produce" (Smoke the tobacco your land produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...used exclusively to herald the native tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech-Nut v. Beechnut. P. Lorillard Co. (Beechnut chewing tobacco) is not infringing the trademark of the Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut chewing ' gum, candies, ham, peanut butter, etc.) - decided the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Said Mr. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Lorillard Co. is at least as well known to those who do not despise tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Court Doings | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf and matches will be imposed. By a 33 1/3% duty on imported tires, by shortening excise credits allowed to brewers, by taking money from road fund reserves and transferring it to national reserves, the chancellor figures he can not only meet the deficit but set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike Budget | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...supplies two services, unique in the world, its driver, William Lucas, modestly believes: 1) a clock that works; 2) free cigarets and matches. Old Mr. Lucas states that his clients never take more than two cigarets a trip. Cigarets are changed daily, each day a new brand. A tobacco firm asked the driver if he would use their brand as an advertisement; was refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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