Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...briefcase. Chambers would call on him, pick up the documents, have them rushed to Baltimore to be microfilmed, then return the originals to the official the same night. By the time the documents were back in department files next morning, Chambers would be in New York, opening up his tobacco pouch from which he drew his microfilm copies to deliver to Colonel Boris Bykov, the chief Soviet military intelligence agent...
...cantata-sung by the Christian choir from Spencer, eight miles away-was Freedom's biggest Christmas celebration. The day it was held, most of the customers at the Regal (which offers such homely items as Clabber Girl Baking Powder and Mail Pouch Tobacco) chatted about it, and some started talking about the way the world looked to them as Christmas drew near...
...high support prices for farm products were continued. In its nearly 30-year history, the federation, strongest U.S. farm lobby, has always gone down the line for price supports and for guaranteed markets. Congress had seldom failed to heed its cry. This year it was the Southern cotton and tobacco growers who came out strongest for keeping farm support prices as high as possible and for extending them to commodities that are not being supported under the present law (e.g., fruits and vegetables...
...Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
When a brash minority objected to a C.I.O. endorsement of the Marshall Plan, Murray let fly at them. The dissenters included James Durkin, boss of the office workers' union, Donald Henderson, boss of the tobacco workers, and Abe Feinglass, an officer of the fur workers. "I do not say that everyone who is opposed to the Marshall Plan is a Communist," said Murray, "but I do say that every Communist is opposed to the Marshall Plan...