Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, Rhodesia has been unable to sell the bulk of its tobacco crop -the nation's biggest cash earner-because of the sanctions. Nevertheless, most farmers have got rid of enough to cover their production costs. In any case, the loss may be a boon, since it is forcing Rhodesians to diversify their crops. Whatever their impact, sanctions have served only to make the whites more adamant...
...slaughtering industry has long boasted that it used up everything but the squeal. Together with the utilization of other wastes-such as corncobs and tobacco shreddings to produce face powder and insecticides-the agriculture-waste industry is a $5.9 billion business. The squeezings from soybean oil are used for oral contraceptives. Hiram Walker says, only half in jest, that it recovers "the hangover from whisky" -fusel oil, usually blamed for hangovers, can now be largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came...
Considering the bewildering array of new cigarettes, smokers may well find it easier to fight than switch. As tobacco companies jockey for bigger shares of a market that, despite the health scares, is stronger than ever, the industry has erupted in what it mildly calls "brand proliferation...
Most of the smoke is coming from filters. With only a small part of the market a decade ago, filters have been unintentionally blessed by the health-hazard debate, now account for 65% of the industry's $7 billion annual sales. Challenging the leader, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has the bestselling plain and menthol filters (Winston and Salem), other manufacturers are aiming for the top with new tips...
Coupons for Cash. Most prolific of all is the American Tobacco Co. (Pall Mall, Tareyton, Lucky Strike). Vowing "total war" to capture R. J. Reynolds' lead, American President Robert B. ("Barney") Walker, 53, has launched 20 new brands since he took over the company in mid-1963. Pall Mall, the leading non-filter, now comes in filter and menthol versions, as do Luckies. The company's Waterford boasts a moisture-laden filter, Sweet Caporal has an old name with a new tip, and Colony offers coupons exchangeable for cash or trading stamps. Among other brands being tested...