Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greece had improved its economic situation (tobacco, wine, textiles, leather goods) but it was still "the poorest nation in Europe.'' Partial cause of this was the unprecedented importation of 1,400,000 indigent Greeks from Turkey and Bulgaria in exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally...
...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
Forbidden by their religion to use motorized farm machinery, Amish husbandmen raise corn and tobacco which are best adapted for the efforts of man and horse. Last year the Pennsylvania Amishmen joined in the reduction of crops by voluntarily curtailing their tobacco acreage. They puzzled many a Washington official, played hob with many an AAA balance sheet, by refusing to accept any Government benefit money. Since then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop...
...tied with Blackett was the leader for the two previous years, J. Walter Thompson, with accounts like Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Fleischmann), Cutex, Carter's Ink, Eastman Kodak, Kraft-Phenix Cheese. Third with a radio budget of $2,900,000 was Lord & Thomas whose best account is American Tobacco (Lucky Strikes...
Plucked from the aromatic ceremony of a Russian Easter to grace the tobacco fields of Connecticut, Anna Sten intrudes pleasingly upon the American scene in her latest picture, "The Wedding Night." The Slavonic accent, a charming one, is both preserved and accounted for by the fact that she is cast as the daughter of a toiling family of Polish immigrant farmers. It is a family which knows not the lilies of the field...