Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interior provinces upon which Chiang's army must now rely are potentially wealthy. Szechwan, with an area of 155,000 square miles (approximately the area of California), is rich in gold and oil, and its 52,000,000 people produce four harvests a year. Rice, wheat, barley, millet, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, beans and cotton make up its harvests. Neighboring Yunnan has tin, copper, iron and coal, and its mulberry leaves are juicy enough to nourish a great silk industry. Kweichow is up-tilted country, good for cattle raising and orchards...
Footing the bills for the Waring five-a-week shows (which started Monday night under a two-year contract) is the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield). Annual cost: some $2,500,000. Of this whopping sum, the air time over 82 NBC stations will cost $37,000 a week, and the Warings will get the rest, $12,000 a week...
Last week Duke University published an expensive little book* by English Professor William Blackburn, detailing how thoroughly Dukensian the University is. Buck's father, old Washington Duke, who founded the Duke tobacco dynasty, got small Methodist Trinity College to move to Durham from a North Carolina village in 1892 by giving it $85,000, made it co-educational five years later by giving $100,000 more. When, in 1924, Buck Duke made little Trinity the tenth richest university in the land (endowment today: $30,000,000), it was glad not only to take his name but also...
...today has a sumptuously equipped medical school and a hospital (largest in the South) that has treated more than 110,000 patients, schools of religion, law (some of whose students ostentatiously study in log cabins), nursing, forestry and graduate studies, a college for women on a separate, Georgian campus. Tobacco, source of Duke's wealth, is not neglected: a laboratory conducts constant research in prevention of tobacco diseases, improvement of cigaret paper...
Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...