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...Tobacco is a basic tool of learning. It soothes a mind boggling at books, smoothes the heartbeat, quiets the nerves. A man can gather information without books, but to digest it without tobacco is purest folly. Knowledge fills the mind; a good cigar expands...
...nearly every segment of the U.S. economy. Imported Volkswagens, for instance, will probably cost less to the U.S. consumer, as will French cheeses, Swiss watches, Japanese cameras, Italian ceramics and Hong Kong silk suits. American farmers, on the other hand, expect bigger markets abroad for such items as cotton, tobacco and soybeans...
Although habituation occurs, psychic dependence is not as prominent or compelling as in the case of morphine, alcohol, or perhaps even tobacco habituation...
...combined profits off 7.3%, compared to last year. A similar survey by the Wall Street Journal of 468 companies showed after-tax earnings down 9% for the quarter. The sharpest drops were in autos, steel, rails, textiles, aircraft and building materials. Moderate gains were registered in office equipment, petroleum, tobacco, publishing and utilities. Here, too, the news was two-tone, and the future looked significantly better than the past. The Commerce Department reported that of the 18 leading indicators available so far for March, eleven were up. These included new machinery orders, housing starts, stock prices, and the rate...
Died. Roland J. Thomas, 66, president of the United Auto Workers from 1939 to '46, a tough, tobacco-chewing unionist who fought his way from welder at a Chrysler plant to the top of his union after taking part in the bloodily bitter 1937 General Motors and Chrysler strikes, later allowed far-leftists to infiltrate many of his locals, and subsequently lost his job to Walter Reuther after an angry, close-fought election in 1946; of a stroke; in Muskegon, Mich...