Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quality is also a hit-or-miss proposition. Rumanian "Carpati" cigarettes are so thinly packed that a smoker must slit the pack down the side in order to avoid spilling tobacco from a vertically lifted cigarette. The well-turned-out lady of Budapest buys her clothes at the shop of Klára Rothschild on winding Váci Utca, but equally handsome working-class wives do their shopping at the Great Market Hall-a vast, unheated, barnlike building where sausages and onions dangle from the beams, dung-smeared chicken eggs sell for a dollar a dozen, and delectable fish...
...gathers samples of toiletries and tobacco products that manufacturers usually give away free, boxes them into "Campus-Pacs," and distributes them through college stores. His Guest Pac Corp. recently sold its 10 millionth box and, with the obvious inspiration of a public-relations man, celebrated by giving a $250 scholarship to the M.I.T. coed, Laura Miller...
...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Depending on their backgrounds, Volunteers will work with the Office of Community Development, the Dominican Co-operative Institute, the Tobacco Institute, Ministry of Agriculture of the Forestry Institute on their respective projects for development...
...High Veld are the tobacco ranches, the major cities, and most of the country's wealth. Whoever controls that high land controls the destiny of the country, and whoever fails to control that plateau becomes a pauper. All other inequities in Rhoddesia result from the unequal distribution of land--the Europeans on the rich land and the Africans on the poor...
...farming, regardless of the quality of the land. All the land owned by Africans is now over-used and over-populated. In the European area only three per cent of the land is used for cultivation--the rest is left idle. The Africans have tried raising high-grade Virginia tobacco, a crop that brings 14 per cent of the nation's income, and have been prevented from doing so by the government's Tobacco Marketing Board...