Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death by hanging was ordered for saboteurs, pillagers, arsonists, profiteers and loafers. Before officials could get the gallows up, one Johann Heinin was shot in Dessau for sabotage and in Stammheim Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...
...hours later they flocked to an international soccer match, were well pleased to see the Poles whip the Hungarians, 4-to-2. In bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone and General Flanco...
Cuba's tobacco was due for a fall, sugar for a rise. Havana was proposed as a free port, where both sides could pick up the raw materials of death from neutral sellers...
...Pont, Monsanto, Union Carbide, General Electric, General Motors, Corn Products, American Can, International Nickel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corp., National Steel, Liggett & Myers "B," Reynolds Tobacco "B," U. S. Tobacco, American Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Public Service of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Union Tank Car, American Chicle, Beech-Nut, General Foods, J. C. Penney, Sears-Roebuck, Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, Household Finance, International Business Machines, Allied Chemical, New Jersey Zinc, Homestake, Phelps Dodge, Bristol-Myers...
...corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...