Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Williams Out. If for no other reason than that he was president of that highly successful capitalistic enterprise, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President...
...Tobacco Road. In its second year, Erskine Caldwell's grotesque masterpiece about Georgia tenant farmers has suddenly become topical (TIME, March...
...sensational New York Post published an even starker series on the same subject by earthy Author Erskine Caldwell (God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road...
...through the brightly-costumed crowds to the pavilions where Tampa's four Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown...
Tampa dates the birth of its cigar industry from 1885 when Señor Gutierrez arrived in Florida to open a guava jelly, paste and preserve business but decided to back two cigar factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic...