Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone notice the cigaret manufacturers rushing the NRA in order to get a code? . . . The total amount paid to producers in the nine principal tobacco States didn't equal the net profits of the big four cigaret manufacturers...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither...
Cooper is an author who returns to the ancestral mansion in Connecticut after failing in New York. In the Polacks, frugal tobacco farmers who have turned the supposedly useless valley into a gold mine, he finds many new things, new inspiration, new power, and, incidentally, a new love in Anna Sten who will make a good wife because she can "work like two womans." Tarka finds himself in the mood to write the following note. "Not like snow. Very sorry. Not like Connecticut. Me go. Very sorry. Tarka...
Born 67 years ago in Bald Mount, Pa., the plump, dour little merchant has cherished his farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf...