Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, his major legislative recommendations--which had been outlined previously by both himself and Secretary Benson--asked for authority to set supports for cotton, corn, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco as low as 60 per cent of parity and to increase planting allotments of these crops as much as 50 per cent above levels now directed...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will be joined by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), 43rd U.S. company to enter. Reynolds' sales in 1957 topped $1 billion for first time, due largely to Winston. But Reynolds is still trailing the $1.1 billion American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Hit Parade...
...deputy probation officer. "There were two kinds of people then," he recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn't wear whiskers and he didn't chew tobacco. There wasn't any reason he couldn't hold his head up and look any man straight...
...Once upon a time," said Nikita, "there were three men in a prison. They were a Social Democrat, an anarchist and a humble little Jew?a half-educated,little fellow named Pinya. They decided to elect a cell leader who would watch over distribution of food, tea and tobacco. The anarchist, a big, burly fellow, was against such a lawful process as electing authority. To show his contempt for law and order, he proposed that insignificant little Pinya be elected. They elected Pinya. Things went well, and they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made...
CIGARETTE SMOKERS are spending more than ever but getting less tobacco. Although U.S. cigarette production puffed to record 441 billion in 1957, total tobacco output dipped 23% from 1956 to postwar low of 1,680 million Ibs. Five years ago makers rolled out 325 cigarettes per Ib. of tobacco; in 1957 they manufactured 360 per Ib. by using filters and homogenized tobacco leaf (TIME, June...