Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model on display for farmers' inspection. Costing the same $500,000,000, it was basically identical with the apparatus whipped together last spring after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme Court has forbidden it to approach directly...
MEDICINE Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco...
...Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that U. S. consumers alone last year bought 134,607,741,257 cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement...
...Tobacco Road-Erskine Caldwell's lunatic crackers, now in their fourth year...
...Author, Born in Timmonsville, S. C. in 1903, the son of a tobacco planter, Melvin Purvis has had a more exceptional career than he makes out in his book. Slight (127 lb.), wiry, red-haired and superstitious, he studied law at the University of South Carolina, practiced for two years, went to Washington in 1927 seeking a post in the State Department, got one in the Bureau of Investigation. He chased automobile thieves in Texas and worked in Cincinnati and Oklahoma City before the Dillinger case put him in headlines. Unmarried, he collects biographies, has a pet cocker spaniel, shoots...