Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British-American Tobacco...
...further economies and improvement of tax collection; by measures against fraud; by the creation of a tax on exports; by a tax on Bourse operations; by an increase in the price of tobacco and an exceptional temporary tax on payments, the manner of the collection of which will be established by decree...
...concerned the claims of an American in New Zealand. William Webster, a Maine man, bought 500,000 acres of land in New Zealand from native chiefs during the five years prior to 1840. His medium of exchange was described before the commission as consisting of rum, duck trousers, blankets, tobacco and powder. Other speculators purchased large tracts of land, and soon 650,000 acres more than the total area of New Zealand had been sold in all. To complicate matters, Great Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840. Only titles recognized by the land court were recognized. Since that time friction...
...General Secretary of the No-Tobacco League...
...Realizing that example is more potent than precept, will you not make as one of your New Year's resolutions the decision not to use tobacco yourself...