Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were the U.S. oil industry, the lumber industry; the coal interests, the copper interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...
...which followed it. During the week Georgia had endured not one but three governors. Both retiring Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall and Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, once Arnall's executive secretary, had set up governments-in-exile. And Georgia had been all but inundated in a flow of tobacco juice and horrible verbiage...
Then came stage dressing. Hundreds of Old Gene's red-gallused wool hat boys invaded Atlanta to "see Hummon git it." After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
Died. Andrew J. Volstead, 87, tobacco-chewing, publicity-shy country lawyer who co-authored (with the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas) and gave his name to the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, which implemented the 18th Amendment; in Granite Falls, Minn...
Mammon was still several laps ahead: during 1945 the U.S. spent $7,800,000,000 for alcoholic drinks, $3,000,000,000 for tobacco...