Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent migrations...
Smoke. Britain, which has been out of the tobacco market, bought 90,000,000 Ibs. of surplus tobacco from a North Carolina growers' cooperative. It hoped to pay for other tobacco purchases with EGA cash...
Sparkler. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. brought out its Raleigh cigarettes in a shiny new aluminum foil package, now being tried out in Detroit. The pack, stronger and more moisture-proof than paper, was developed by Reynolds Metals Co. Raleigh hopes to offset the higher material cost by production savings in wrapping the single-sheet unit...
Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...