Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulged up from 1,240 millions to 1,349 millions; potatoes from 251 millions to 470 millions; garden truck from 300 millions to 322 millions; fruit from 480 millions to 506 millions. Most valuable truck: tomatoes, $50,777,000. Most valuable fruit: apples, $184,107,000. Tobacco crop...
March 2 Dr. W. L. Mendenhall, "Tobacco...
...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
...motion picture companies stockmarket breaks do not mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker...
...cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved fin de siècle manner by tobacco and the hypodermic needle...