Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phantom Gold: A dreary recital of the greed that consumes a Tobacco Road-like family when mineral deposits on their worn-out farm bring them big money...
...retain their power and money, to hordes of sly, ice-hard usurers, pimps and blackmailers. The never-ending battle between these two groups is fought out in luxurious palaces, in squalid lodging houses, and cafés filled with the thick stench of "burned meat, restaurant napkins, and tobacco...
Medellin (pronounced Medday-heen) and its tributary towns of the Aburra Valley are the seat of the three major Colombian textile concerns-Coltejer, Fabricate, and Tejicondor. The Medellin tobacco industry is a monopoly. In Medellin, far from the Magdalena, a new skyscraper is going up to house the Antioquian company that dominates Magdalena River shipping. Most of Colombia's investments in gold, all in oil and steel, the bulk of the coffee trade have their homes in Medellin...
...clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
Almost 30% of her 1946 American imports had been in tobacco and Hollywood -a statistic which portended more austerity. Most of the rest of Britain's loan spending had gone into food and other consumer items instead of into the stuff out of which real economic recovery could be built-steel, industrial raw materials, machinery...