Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were only a few classes of miscellaneous taxes which brought increased revenue: Tobacco taxes increased from 162 to 171 million dollars; club dues taxes increased slightly...
Recently (TIME, Jan. 12) Trinity College of Durham, N. C., decided to change its name to Trinity College, Duke University-a change signifying the acceptance of $40,000,000 preferred by James Buchanan Duke, tobacco...
Potato Sap. By extracting a small amount of sap from a healthy potato plant and injecting it into a tobacco plant, the latter was found to become diseased. This disease from this plant could be transmitted to an unlimited number of other plants, showing that it was not merely a case of poisoning. -Dr. James Johnson, University of Wisconsin...
...Last month, James Buchanan Duke, North Carolina tobacco man, established a 40-million-dollar trust fund (TIME, Dec. 15). He told Trinity College (Durham, N. C.) that if it would become Duke University, it might have the money. Otherwise, there would be a new university in the land...
...Carolinas are the beneficiaries of the trust, for there was the cradle of the Duke tobacco fortune...