Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where stands your editor who insists upon bringing independent intellectual standards into the making of his paper? Can you imagine the editor of "The Tobacco Journal", house organ of the Chu Rite Tobacco Co., refusing to "support the company"? Picture him publishing an article in his paper that was contributed by the Anti-Tobacco League! Preposterous! He would be fired in a hurry. His paper exists for the purpose of breaking down sales resistance and inspiring languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college...
Production. Commodities showing decreases; grain products, salt, goloshes, tires, tobacco products...
...protesting against Hinduism on the one hand and Muhammadanism on the other. His name was Nanak. He taught that God was neither Allah nor Ram, but simply God. He rejected the Hindu idols, caste-system, concremation of widows (suttee), pilgrimages to sacred rivers (TIME, Feb. 9). He forbade wine, tobacco, infanticide. His essential difference from Christianity was a belief in transmigration and fatalism...
...Senate adopted a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to undertake an investigation of the General Electric Co. to determine whether it and its subsidiaries have acquired a monopoly or exercise a control in restraint of trade. Another resolution was adopted providing for an investigation of the American Tobacco Co. to determine similar facts and also whether there was a conspiracy to boycott tobacco growers' cooperatives. Senator Trammell of Florida proposed an inquiry into the rise in gasoline prices. A proposal has been made for an investigation in wheat and bread prices because of recent increases. Senator Howell threatens...
...after another, trusts were knocked on the head and compelled to disintegrate. In 1904 and 1905, the Northern Securities, the Beef Trust, the Addyston Pipe Co. were dispatched. Later came the Standard Oil case (which lasted for five years before the company lost and was dissolved) and the American Tobacco Co. case...