Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber authorized the creation of an autonomous sinking fund out of which the National Defense bonds and short term Treasury issues will be amortized. The fund is to be fed by the additional inheritance taxes just voted, by a budgetary allowance and from the profits of the enormous state tobacco monopoly. A non-partisan committee of 20 experts will administer the sinking fund, with the object of restoring confidence in the Government's willingness and ability to meet its obligations without hindrance from the Chamber...
...Bridgewater, Conn., "in George Pratt's old tobacco barn," a student summer university was opened last week by the National Student Forum. The first conferences, led by Editor Douglas Haskell of the New Student, were on the subject of college journalism. Future sessions, the prospectus explains, will be devoted to digesting, with the aid of college professors, various "green apples" lately laid before the "new" student-recent books on sociology, psychology, education, science, drama. Here, too, "good fellowship" is stressed. The scene is pastoral, the cost low, designed to suit "the overwhelming minority." Host Pratt, a recent Harvard graduate...
...What opened "in George Pratt's old tobacco barn...
Rats smoked in California. They were experimental subjects of Physiologist Hazel Field at the state university, who studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...
...Tobacco smoke affected rodents...