Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rewarded with a bounty of more than $900,000,000 distributed locally in such a way that the people of each county would watch each farmer to see that he got neither more nor less than he deserved. The bounty would be paid only on wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs and then only on that part of the production required for domestic consumption...
...Tobacco...
...Cloudy with Showers, learned acrobatic dancing, raised $10,000 for her magazine from Mrs. Thomas Lamont, Julian Huxley, any of her friends who would contribute, went to Chicago and got further backing from a printer. She smokes only pipes, has about three dozen of them, got 14 tins of tobacco for Christmas...
Zachary Smith Reynolds, fourth child of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of a tobacco company at Winston-Salem, N. C. Two years after his birth in 1911, his father's tobacco company gave birth to the first package of Camels. While Zachary Smith Reynolds was growing up, a weak-chinned, moody child at his family's elaborate 600-acre country seat, "Reynolda," the U. S. entered the War. Out of the War came mass-smoking of cigarets, with Camels a U. S. favorite. In 1918, the year "R. J." died, Reynolds were producing more than...
...enough pill to swallow. But the last punishing touch of perfidy are the lines alleged to come from his pen. A strange and altogether alien person seems to tell how he took the "400", in to camp, wallowed in their silk sheets, sipped their wines, smoked their expensive tobacco, and regaled them with his glittering conversation...