Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's Federal Trade Commission building last week, visitors carefully snuffed out cigarettes before entering the special FTC hearing in Room 532. For the next three days, Congressmen, Governors, doctors, lawyers and businessmen argued an issue that is of overwhelming concern to the nation's $8 billion tobacco industry and its 70 million customers. The issue: Can the FTC force the cigarette companies to label every one of their packages and advertisements with an explicit warning that cigarettes are harmful...
...bacco, which for 30 years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful to the American people." Tobacco-state Senators rose in righteous wrath. Chief among them was North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who borrowed a line from Rudyard Kipling: "And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke." Williams' amendment was voted down...
...flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis! Rotary! Order of the Eastern Star! White Citizens...
...brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...produce or shop for their needs; huddled protectively in the railway stations between trains, they exude the musty smell of damp wool, onions, bitter tobacco and accumulated sweat that has blanketed Russia far longer and more pervasively than Marxism...