Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
...nationally known. Among the ten were Maryland's onetime Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie; onetime FDI Chairman Walter Joseph Cummingst now chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.; President Ellery W, Mann of Zonite Products Corp.; Vice Chairman Samuel Clay Williams of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl, she eventually learned to keep the corncob puffing. She now confesses to enjoying a smoke, is having difficulty breaking herself of the habit...
...need a certain amount of produce which can be obtained only through foreign trade and if our export markets were closed, the tobacco and grain sections of this country would be fatally struck, but we cannot hope for an increase in our export balance because the buyers have no more money. Under the present circumstances it seems impossible that there would be a simultaneous increase in imports and exports...
Tobaccoman Reynolds' brother William Neal, a great tobacco buyer, is the only Reynolds active in the company today. At 71 he is chairman of the executive committee. But Reynolds Tobacco has a long string of first class executives. Bespectacled Bowman Gray, a great tobacco salesman, is chairman of the board. Suave, meticulous S. Clay Williams left the presidency last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from...