Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
Speaking for the industry, Reynolds Tobacco Chairman Bowman Gray called the order " unwise, unwarranted." Tobacco men charged that the FTC had exceeded its authority, made plans to test the case in the courts. They got plenty of support from Southern Governors and Congressmen. Officials in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare wondered whether they should have jurisdiction in the matter instead of the in dependent FTC - or whether any labeling rule should be enforced at all. Even some of the sharpest critics of the industry questioned the legality and propriety of the order. Surgeon General Luther...
...same text ("Dynamic. Depressing. Open-all-night. Closed-for-the-season. Everybody welcome. White only. Colored entrance. Bloated with wealth and despairing in poverty. Aggressive and reactionary."). But the 1964-model Caldwell & Company seems much milder, and the result of the collaboration is a sort of filter-tip Tobacco Road...
...chance to drink from the cup of plenty. I just came from visiting a home that has used the food stamp plan, that lives off an old-age pension that tries to feed a grandmother, seven children, a mother and father-a family of ten-off nine acres of tobacco and ten acres of cotton on an advance of $20 a week with a charge of 10% interest...
With muscled men, gorgeous girls and green valleys, the U.S. tobacco industry has long pictured the cigarette as the companion of sex and virility, of glamour and wellbeing. From now on, the industry will have to call a smoke a smoke-and pretty much let it go at that...