Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the old Chinese tariff there were five separate bureaus for collecting taxes on wine & loose tobacco, rolled tobacco, stamp, yarn, kerosene (China, unmotorized. uses far more kerosene than gasoline). The new Soong tariff may irk foreign exporters by raising all the rates, but it will vastly expedite shipments by reducing these five tax bureaus...
...came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife served as official hostess. Later...
...snuff industry is dominated by three great companies. There is U. S. Tobacco Co. whose brand is famed Copenhagen. Last year this company earned $2,771,000, but the figure was swelled by returns from smoking tobacco including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered...
...snuffer. He startled European courts by the care he used in carrying the right colored box for every occasion. In Canada, the Royal Highlanders at mess pass around a ramshorn filled with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing tobacco is that snuff does not form so large a cud (word used by all snuff technicians), therefore requires less expectorating, is less conspicuous...
...Tobacco...