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Word: tobacco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home again by 5, Gray has a single martini before dinner, poured from a full bottle of martinis that he makes up for the week. He usually gets into bed about 9 to read or watch TV (particularly shows with tobacco sponsors) until lights out at 10:30. Gray has few cultural interests (his favorite relaxation: doing jigsaw puzzles), seldom attends church (he is a Methodist), sees perhaps one movie a year. His chief outside-work interest is the farm, where he likes to wander on weekends, carrying a notebook with the vital statistics of his 415 Guernseys and calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...delicate, wide-leafed tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) became known as "the divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...said: "Just remember, it is not always a symbol ?sometimes it's just a cigar." Small-Town Touch. By stimulating, anticipating and satisfying the public taste, R. J. Reynolds has built itself into the biggest and, according to Wall Street, the best-managed company in the U.S. tobacco industry. But it has never lost its oldfashioned, small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Gray is proudest of a much-abused, often misused concept known as teamwork. He freely delegates authority ("Confidence is important"), but makes certain that everyone knows precisely what is expected of him. He runs the company through seven top committees, headed by directors responsible for every function from buying tobacco leaf to setting up drugstore displays. Unhappy about the way one department was running, Gray last year walked up to its head, said softly that something had to be done, concluded: "I'll see you in six months." Exactly six months later, Gray checked up. The matter had been straightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...company got its start in 1874, when a brash youth named Richard Joshua Reynolds, wearing a tobacco-stained mustache that belied his 21 years, took his profits from a family tobacco business, set up his own business at Winston to sell chewing tobacco among the back-country folk. He did so well that by 1888 he was worth more than a quarter million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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