Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tighten up the national diet from 2,870 to 2,700 calories a day (U.S. average: 3,450). Standing as far as possible from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone home, the Tories called for a vote in which Labor squeaked through...
...speculating fraternity, vaguely tagged as "gamblers," has become the Administration's favorite whipping boy for high commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 27). But speculators could scarcely be blamed for the high price of tobacco, which almost doubled since prewar. In tobacco, as in most commodities, the villain was demand. Last week the villain was confounded...
...difficult thing for the Navajos to understand. The U.S. had had its chance to kill them after their surrender in 1864. Blue-clad, tobacco-chewing U.S. cavalrymen had rounded them up, marched them like cattle 300 miles from Arizona Territory to New Mexico's Fort Sumner, kept them prisoners for four years. But when the Navajos agreed to peace "from this day forward," they had been freed and helped to start a new life...
Authority's Angel. The Authority keeps clear of politics. It is run by twelve non-salaried commissioners (appointed by the governors of New York and New Jersey). The current chairman is Howard Stix Cullman, 56, dapper, hustling millionaire director of Cullman Bros., tobacco growers and merchants...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...