Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality." Evidently, he warned Smith that Pretoria's future capacity for helping Rhodesia will be increasingly limited. As Smith well knows, an estimated $100 million worth of Rhodesian bulk exports of corn, minerals and tobacco are already held up on the Rhodesian side of the border for lack of space on South Africa's crowded rail lines to carry them...
...bare Martian surfaces of the Permian basin. It includes the clear alpine valleys of the Blue Ridge and the subtropical swamps of south Georgia. It boasts the 18th century architecture of Charleston, S.C., and the climbing glass silos by John Portman in Atlanta. Its exports include cotton and tobacco to the North, politicians to Washington, novelists to the world and rockets to outer space...
Times are rough right now in Chatham, both for the farmers with their puny, drought-burned tobacco leaves and for the folks in the stores, which are hurting for customers. "Nowadays, you are lucky if you can farm, keep your place clean and pay your taxes," complains Frank Pierce, 56, an archetypal Southern farmer in bib overalls. He says that many farmers are turning to moonshine whisky to see them through. Even so, there is a basic optimism. "Folks can do all right," maintains Mayor Hairston...
...with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within 24 hours. Hare Rama Bidis are an Indian import made from an Asian tobacco that contains up to ten times as much nicotine as the tobacco used in U.S. cigarettes...
...speed, eyesight and reflexes. Those who scored well were sent to Manatee Junior College in the morning and in the afternoon studied baseball. Others went directly into a farm system staffed with coaching specialists. Says Kauffman: "There's more to learn in the minors than how to chew tobacco...