Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persia, third* largest opium growing country in the world, issued a statement to the effect that she was ready to abolish opium growing for the culture of silk, cotton, tea, tobacco, hemp and flax, provided she were accorded a loan of $10,000,000 for 20 years. In private, she let it be known that it was to the U. S. that she looked for this money...
Prepared opium is made in many different ways according to whether it is to be smoked or eaten. The usual form is to boil it with other chemicals (clarify it for eating) and make it into pills which are then smoked with ordinary tobacco...
...captain in the slave trade, rum and the force of habit hardening him to his task. Little by little he is brought in the end to see the light and realize the iniquitous character of his way of life. A da capo climax brings him back to the Virginia tobacco fields...
...office of the Radio Co., sat him in a comfortable chair and talked quietly to millions. The keynote of his speech was an inversion of the late President Wilson's famous dictum about making the world safe for democracy. It left Mr. Baldwin's tobacco-hardened tongue as "making democracy safe for the world." Avoiding controversy, attacking nobody, he gave his listeners what he termed "a heart-to-heart talk." Said he: "You cannot all make speeches, thank God. . . . We are all going through a pretty bad time. Prices are high; jobs are few; and taxes are heavy...
...Arthur Clement, the proprietor of the shop, in a recent interview declared that when he had started in business for himself last year he had made an attempt to secure some distinctive insignin to announce to the public that he was conducting a real old fashioned tobacco shop. His brother, who conducts the Book Shop on Dunster Street, remembered that in his childhood there had been a wooden Indian in his home town of Rutland, Vermont...