Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts are, of course, that despite protestations to the contrary from some of the manufacturers, there is a decided difference in quality between the 10-cent and the 15-cent cigarette. Members of Congress from tobacco producing states indicated as much in their line of questioning when this subject was up before the committee in January...
Some of the larger tobacco manufacturers are prepared to prove that the purpose of the classified tax is really to demoralize the whole tobacco industry in the United States so that foreigners may be able to dictate the price at which they shall buy tobacco from American growers...
Sung with doleful nonchalance by its author, James Shelton, this Gutter Song is one of the pleasant moments in New Faces. So is a parody of grim Tobacco Road in which Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs impersonate Erskine CaldwelFs hungry gluttons. Squeaks the largest pig: "I ain't had anything to eat, pappy, sense we et mammy last week...
...plunging bronze horses on the pinnacle of Madrid's Banco de Bilbao were no more restless than Spanish Labor. Eighty thousand building workers threw down their tools because a handful of contractors was holding out against a 44-hour week. Over a thousand men walked out of a tobacco factory because one "Conservative" porter had been hired. Last week Premier Lerroux pieced together a third Cabinet and tried "alarm." To prevent it from alarming too much, the Minister of the Interior explained that the new7 state was "not because of any dangerous conditions, but because of the possibilities that...
...Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think of themselves as heroes. John Miltern (Reed), Robert Keith (Lazear), Barton MacLane (Carroll) and some 40 other actors perform it with fervent sincerity. With Men in White, They Shall Not Die, Ah, Wilderness and Tobacco Road, Yellow Jack should be a leading candidate for this year's Pulitzer Prize when the committee meets this spring...