Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like...
...with him to Washington nearly six years ago-and no one knows it better than Ezra Benson. In a speech last week in Los Angeles, like the legendary sorcerer's apprentice, he all but pushed the panic button in warning that the runaway price-support programs for wheat, tobacco and peanuts "might soon become disastrous." Said he: "We must complete our revision of the farm programs without delay...
...market also proved that the new economy is so big and so diverse that many industries once considered the driving forces can slow down without bringing a traffic jam throughout business. The tobacco companies, the supermarket chains, drug and electronics companies all had record or near-record years despite recession. Investors reacted by driving P. Lorillard up 175% to 89 at the high; General Foods went from 50¼ to 79½ Federated Department Stores from 30⅛ to 54¾ Pfizer, Merck. Schering, and Carter Products posted 68% to 114% gains. One spectacular performer riding a recession boom: Zenith...
Muleya was suddenly a hero. Joyful spectators, black and white alike, bore him from the track in triumph on their shoulders. Trumpeted one white tobacco farmer: "He may be black, but, by God, he's a Rhodesian...
...Conformity and conformism are old and deeply ingrained characteristics of American Society," he said as he poured the loose pipe tobacco from a cellophane bag into his plastic tobacco pouch. "That's one thing that's not so obvious when you're in college as later...