Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Husky James McMenamin was no union official. He belonged to a union which is the smallest of four among the Transit Workers. But he was shrewdly assisted by tobacco-chewing, 200-lb. Frank Carney, president of a potent independent union. And the militant young C.I.O Transport Workers Union, which has a plant majority and endorses the promotion of Negroes, was unable to keep its members at work. Together McMenamin and Carney were powerful enough to tie up Philadelphia's entire transportation system, keep 6,000 transit employes idle and defy for five days the U.S. Government, including two generals...
...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
...Forswear all Federal sales and excise taxes (except on tobacco, liquor and perhaps gasoline), because such taxes boost the price of goods and reduce sales. Such taxes, say Ruml & Sonne, are deflationary, lit the lowest incomes hardest...
...Tobacco companies set a new cigaret production this year. They made 258 billion tax-paid cigarets in their fiscal year ended June 1944, 13 billion more than in record-breaking 1943. They produced more billions for the Army and the Navy. But despite this fabulous production, the U.S. public has oversmoked its way into a national shortage...
...first half of 1944, more than a billion packages of twenties were bought for resale through domestic and overseas post exchanges.) Shortage of tobacco, cited by some company officials, also has little to do with the current bareness of dealers' counters. The tobacco supply worries the leading companies. Their current in months' inventories are production, sufficient for whereas about 20 stocks to 23 of aging tobaccos normally are maintained to equal a three-year supply...