Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long Life. Seth Lincoln, 91, of Worcester (Mass.), works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...
James Alexander Gray, vice president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., brother of Board Chairman Bowman Gray, was elected president, succeeding S. Clay Williams who became vice chairman...
From Baltimore's Southern Hotel, where he shared a room & bath with his lawyer, to Baltimore's Safe Deposit & Trust Co. went Tobacco-Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, just 28, to sign a few papers, claim his $25,000,000 patrimony. Said Heir Reynolds: "It's a lot of money but I can't get excited...
With decreasing costs scores of laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic began to make heavy water and experiment with it. Heavy water was found to kill guppy fish, tadpoles, flatworms. Dean Lewis reported that tobacco seeds immersed in it failed to sprout. He gave some to a mouse, watched the creature prance tipsily about its cage, lick the glass walls, develop a great thirst. Heavy water in low concentrations (but higher than in ordinary water) was found in the sap and wood of willow trees, in the Dead Sea, in Great Salt Lake. European experimenters dissolved sugar crystals...