Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trend of the evidence presented was of this order: that depression consumption of meat, butter, tobacco, grain, textiles, clothes fell very little if at all. That the consumption of steel and other metals and of lumber had fallen to less than half the pre-Depression level...
Pointing out that the average man buys meat, butter, tobacco, etc., etc. and buys no steel or lumber, the report came to a brief conclusion...
Arnold L. Ogden, executive vice president of Alfred Dunhill of London, class tobacconist (U. S. operating company of Dunhill International, Inc.), last week was made president of the company. In that post he succeeded David A. Schulte (who gives his name to the famed tobacco chainstores) who became chairman...
...will kill half the world's population. Scared at last into their senses, the nations will beat swords into ploughshares, start building up civilization once again. World trade and national governments will have collapsed. In the 1950's life will be hard-no electricity, no automobiles, no tobacco. Harvard University, with T. S. Eliot as president, will be an old-world backwater, out-Oxfording Oxford. Manhattan will be abandoned, "dangerous because of the instability of its huge unoccupied skyscrapers...
...Grown in the heavy clay soils of western Tennessee and Kentucky and parts of Virginia, dark fire-cured tobacco is largely exported to Europe where its full body and woodsmoke flavor is highly prized...