Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future and in larger measure than we have in the past - emphasize the importance of thrift to our people, young and old. The Negro race constitutes one-tenth of the population of the United States. In 1921, Negroes spent for luxuries alone these sums: For cigars, cigarettes and tobacco, $22,000,000; perfumery and cosmetics, $15,000,000; toilet soaps, etc., $14,800,000; chewing gum, $3,500,000; pianos, organs, phonographs and other musical instruments, $46,000,000; sporting goods, cameras, firearms, electric fans, photographs and pictures, at least...
...from the premises. Meanwhile, five more seasons of concerts will be heard inside the 43rd Street entrance, and for five years talking machines, radio apparatus and electric pianos will be sold from the 42nd Street side. Then the five-and-ten will raise its scarlet standard, and the tobacco company will begin to profit on its $6,000,000 outlay...
This is honor for the unhonored and singing for the unsung, if ever there was. Editors may profitably use it in place of tobacco for a week or so before returning to their accustomed equanimity...
Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet...
Resolution to increase the preference on Empire tobacco, defeated...