Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian. He read a good deal privately, he had no friends, he "tended up to business." He invested...
...interim before the enforcement of the new law a surtax, in addition to the present uniform 5% tariff, shall be levied as follows: 5% on ordinary goods, 20% on luxuries, 30% on wine and tobacco...
...revenues (mostly customs duties) and expenditures of the country are less than half a million dollars a year, and foreign commerce is about three times as much. There are no railroads; there are about 55 miles of roads suitable for automobiles. Cotton goods, gin and tobacco are leading imports; rubber, palm oil, coffee, ivory, etc. are the chief exports. Rubber gets into the category of a chief product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation...
Died. James Buchanan Duke, 68, probably the most notable figure in the American tobacco industry, sometime President (1889-1912) of the famed American Tobacco Co. (commonly known as the "Tobacco Trust"); at his New York home, of bronchial pneumonia...
...real object of the shop," explained Mr. Whouley to the CRIMSON last night," is to let the follows grab a hot dog and be sociable while they're buying their tobacco next door...