Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia's tobacco-growing Prince Edward County (pop. 14,120) closed down all its public schools in June 1959 rather than desegregate them. The doors have stayed shut ever since-but last week Federal District Judge Oren R. Lewis shoved Prince Edward a long way closer toward compliance with the law of the land...
...Tobacco for Tampa. A trickle of trade between Cuba and the U.S. remains-$30 million in the first six months of this year. Because of a U.S. Longshoremen's Association boycott, all cargoes to or from Cuba are handled at small, non-union docks in the U.S. They travel in foreign ships and small, privately owned U.S. vessels. The biggest regular shipping center is Tampa, Fla.. where two converted World War II landing craft make the Havana run every week or so. The bulk of U.S. imports is tobacco-$11.3 million worth during the first half...
...celebrated episode of The Hucksters, the novel's autocratic soap tycoon (fictional counterpart of Tobacco Baron George Washington Hill) demonstrated the impact of the hard sell with a simple gesture: he spat on the boardroom table. In many contemporary board rooms, the demonstration might have succeeded only in getting the chairman's shoes wet. Reason: the latest trend in office design is the tableless board room...
...materials and fuels that Europe needs to feed her burgeoning industrial machine. Thus there will be an increase in the shipments of U.S. ores, fibers, scrap, raw chemicals, and non-mineral oils, which constitute 30% of current U.S. exports to the Continent. Exports of food and tobacco, which make up another 30% of the U.S. total, should remain about even, as rising European demand is balanced by rising protectionism for Europe's farmers...
...leader. To Booth, the cause of the South was the cause of gentlemen, and above all the little actor wanted to be recognized as a gentleman-to the very end, when he offered to fight it out with the troop of cavalrymen who surrounded him in a Virginia tobacco barn...