Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jubilee dates from Radcliffe might have proved somewhat persnickety that year, since they felt they had come of age: the 'Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...
From tip to tip, Cuba was scorched by revolutionary violence last week. Saboteurs burned a hotel, tobacco-curing sheds, warehouses with $2,500,000 worth of sugar. A train was derailed. And, in one explosive day, President Fulgencio Batista's troops fought two separate battles against rebel forces in the eastern province of Oriente just as a bomb blast in a main electric cable conduit paralyzed downtown Havana...
Born. To Angier Biddle Duke, 41, tobacco heir (Lucky Strike) and president of the International Rescue Committee, onetime (1952-53) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and Maria Luisa de Arana, 34, granddaughter of Spain's Marquis de Campo Real: their first son, second child; in Southampton, N.Y. Name: Drexel Dario Biddle. Weight...
...used the income to buy industrial machines and raw materials abroad for resale cheap to Peronista manufacturers. Industry-subsidized, tariff-protected and inefficient, but nonetheless industry-grew 63% between 1943 and 1956. Argentina began or expanded the production of chemicals, canned goods, paint, paper, machine tools, motorcycles, tires, tobacco, plastics, plywood, surgical instruments, steel furniture, motors, matches, cement, batteries, refrigerators, TV sets. At length industrial production topped farm production...
Much of the opposition to the soil bank is based on the charge that it is highly partial in whom it helps. Apart from the relatively unimportant conservation-reserve phase, the benefits are confined to producers of the five price-supported crops-wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. Such crops account for only 23% of total farm income-leaving the producers of the other 77% totally outside the benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus...