Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace girls" to boost the sales of its latest product, Peace cigarettes...
...Shepard has done quite a bit himself. He played basketball for North Carolina "quite a while back" and managed to pick up a graduate degree in Business Administration while he was at it. After a year of coaching, Shepard headed west to "sell tobacco to the Chinese." The temptation to use this degree was too much...
...stayed out in the Orient for five years, taking in both China and the Philippines. In between tobacco deals, he found the East had developed considerable interest in basketball. Shepard played a little himself to keep his hand in, and in 1926 he took out enough time from weed-peddling to coach the Chinese Olympic basketball squad...
...loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened with a bang: wheat support during July cost $63 million. For the coming crop year, the cost of the support program is estimated at $2.1 billion...
Spain's stooped and shriveled Juan March has come a long way since the days of his penniless youth when he earned his first pesetas by smuggling tobacco. He did not learn to read or write until his late 40s, but he had a flair for figures. He multiplied his first stake into a fortune (estimated at $100 million to $200 million), gained mastery over scores of Spain's chief industries and banks, and helped finance Franco's rebellion...