Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers' receipts from corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...
...year we spend six times as much for soda and confections as we spend for military purposes, for tobacco nearly four times, for perfumery, jewelry and other items of adornment nearly five times, and for theatres, cabarets and similar amusements more than three times. Military preparations cost us, roughly, one-eighteenth of what we spend for luxuries, amusements and mild vices...
Eighteen players were killed or died from football injuries during the season. Nine of these were high school students; five, college players ; four, professionals, semi-professionals, members of athletic club teams. The most unusual fatality was that of Chester Mares, fullback on Willoughby, O., semipro, team. Chewing tobacco caught in his throat as he was knocked down while catching a pass. He strangled to death...
Dartmouth: one fur neck piece, one tobacco pouch, one opera glass case, two pairs of gloves, one watch, one fraternity pin, one watch fob, and six odd gloves...
Potatoes have run to an estimated total crop of 416,722,000 bushels, or 35,000,000 more than last year. The tobacco crop is forecast at 1,436,738,000 pounds, which is 112,000,000 pounds more than the 1922 crop, and is the fourth largest crop ever raised...