Word: tobacco
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...mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where his mother lives, that Erskine Caldwell wrote Tobacco Road -and he might have been inspired by the setting, if not the climate...
...sale depends on a single market that imposes and fixes conditions that is the great formula for imperialist economic domination." Castro nevertheless continued to concentrate on producing 10 million tons of single crop sugar. The imperialist market is monopolized by the U. S. S. R. Export of previously thriving tobacco is almost nonexistent. In 1958 Cuba exported cattle to South America: but in 1967, 1968, and 1969 cattle had to be imported from Canada (from figures by the Canadian Trade Commission). There is a great scarcity of consumer goods, as witnessed by numerous photographs which have appeared in the news...
...move was a major diplomatic defeat. Many Rhodesians had hoped that more, not less recognition would follow the republic's official birth. Despite the shock of nonrecognition, however, Rhodesia probably will not be seriously harmed. The country's economy is prospering despite four years of U.N. sanctions. Tobacco production has dropped by two-thirds since 1966, when Smith overrode British demands for greater black representation and declared Rhodesia an independent member of the Commonwealth. But nickel, chrome and other exports are finding their way to world markets via neighboring South Africa and the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique...
...called the Devil's Woodyard in the 18th century, when brawling lumberjacks settled there. Now called Lamar, the bleak little tobacco town of 1,350 in eastern South Carolina was convulsed last week in another kind of violence, an atavistic rebellion against the influx of black children to a predominantly white school...
Meanwhile, Sheriff Price is having problems of his own. The town rednecks -an ill-assorted bunch that makes the population of Tobacco Road look like the Princeton Triangle Club-keep glowering at him from their pickup trucks. A former deputy (Don Stroud) is out to kill Price for sure, and the son of the county's millionaire political boss is in jail for manslaughter. Nothing will do, of course, except for the black sheriff and the white ex-sheriff to get together to combat the forces of racism and oppression...