Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...good old "Buck" Duke (TIME, June 26, p. 55), brings up some of the Duke stories which cover the Carolinas like Buck Duke's Southern hydroelectric power lines and are almost as numerous throughout the South as 5? bags of Duke's Mixture and Bull Durham smoking tobacco...
Amid parliamentary palaver on a proposed tobacco-tax increase, waspish Lady Nancy Astor, M. P., who abominates smoking & drinking, called smoking "almost a national crime." Said a fellow member: "Is this not rather strange talk coming from a daughter of Virginia?" Retorted Lady Astor: "I remember the Bishop of Virginia telling me 30 years ago he would sooner see his daughter drunk than smoking a cigarette...
...stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked for the role because he photographed well in the New York Daily News as a returning communicant from the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress last year. Martin is a veteran votary of tobacco. But off the set he refuses anything but Corona Coronas...
...history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard Oil Co. in 1911, and the 31-day prosecution which resulted in breaking up the tobacco trust the same year...