Word: tobaccomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced that the Commodity Credit Corp. will spend about $25 million to finance the tobaccomen who had been buying flue-cured tobacco for the British. For example, if a buyer had 10,000,000 lbs. in British orders to place and had bought only 7,000,000 lbs., CCC would finance the remaining 3,000,000 lbs. In effect, the plan made the buyers agents for the Agriculture Department. If the buyers cannot sell their tobacco, the Department will take it off their hands...
Suspicion, wheedling, indignation, and the haunting eyes of the tobaccoless have hounded the nation's cigaret retailers since the coming of the great famine. This week, because OPA could not or would not, the tobaccomen grimly moved to their own defense...
...after odd plants. They thought he was gathering aphrodisiacs. But what really interested the botanist was the fact that many of the earth's 60 species of Nicotiana grow among the Andes. There, scientists believe, the Nicotiana tabacum now commonly smoked developed long ago through natural hybridization. Federal tobaccomen think that wild, tough plants from their native mountains can perhaps be crossed with the highly bred, less vigorous tobacco strains now cultivated in the U.S., to increase their resistance to fungi, bacteria, viruses, insects which yearly cost growers millions of dollars...