Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern womanhood, relieved his feelings by grabbing America's 60 Families, slamming the book to the floor, stamping his big feet...
...automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer in Mr. Healy. He was called to the New York office, a few months later to Philadelphia to be Curtis advertising director. Next year the Post began accepting cigaret ads, although the magazine has still to receive its proportionate share of the tobacco business-a circumstance which strengthens its resolve to continue excluding liquor advertising...
...festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris, was affected by Cezanne, the draftsmanship of Toulouse-Lautrec and later by the color experiments...
...poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute's John Howard Northrop isolated a phage, showed it to be a protein with the catalyzing properties of an enzyme. These researches convinced many a bacteriologist that phages are nonliving protein molecules, like Wendell Meredith Stanley's crystallized virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease in plants...
...automobiles, coal, steel and cement production, car loadings, department store sales, he predicted next year would be worse than this. For petroleum refining, unemployment and business failures he predicted increases. For electric power and tobacco products little change...