Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
...thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when it reaches normal. For cotton and tobacco farmers, the bill provided both penalties for overproduction and bounty payments to encourage them to divert unneeded land to other uses; for rice, quotas were set on the basis of domestic consumption...
...United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., which dot the country like an attack of measles, have long been filled to bursting with Mickey Mouse watches, G-Man automatics, shoe trees- and only incidentally, cigars. Last week Schulte Retail Stores Corp. announced that it was no longer confining itself to tobacco, was opening its shelves to just about everything else...
...work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte's story would end if Horatio Alger had written it, the Schulte Real Estate Co. made almost $2,000,000, and Mr. Schulte was drawing profits as well from a lot of other real estate companies...
Freshmen are smoking more and reading less these days, a comprehensive survey (of the Union news stand) reveals. There is a marked drop in the amount of reading matter bought and a corresponding increase in the sale of cigarettes, indicating that if Yardlings read at all they read tobacco advertisements...