Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week investment bankers will have the kind of new issue they like. Morgan, Stanley & Co. are heading a syndicate offering $100 million of American Tobacco debentures. The company will use most of the new money to build up its depleted tobacco inventory...
...American Tobacco deal will climax two months of day & night work for investment bankers. They timed the bulk of their financing to fall between the Fifth War Loan in July and the Sixth War Loan drive in November. Since the first of the year, bondmen have marketed more than $2 billion of corporates and municipals-the largest total since...
With characteristic (Tobacco Road) humor, Caldwell spotlights a Southern squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...
...cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
...Freedom. In York, Pa., the City Council decided that smoking is no longer a waste of "good eating tobacco" and violin-fiddling no longer "debauched the morals of the young," planned to legalize both...