Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it became apparent that, unlike his old associate Col. Luke Lea, who is fighting extradition to North Carolina where a six-to-ten year sentence awaits him, Rogers Clark Caldwell was coming back fast. He signed contracts for the second biggest tobacco deal in history. Biggest was R. J. Reynolds (Camels) lump purchase of 60,000,000 lb. of burley from a growers' association several years ago. Last week Mr. Caldwell was not far behind. For approximately $3,750,000 he agreed to buy 40,000,000 lb. of dark-fired tobacco from two big cooperatives, giving...
Stifled by flat racing until 1926 was its country cousin, harness racing. Then William Neal Reynolds, 70, board chairman of Reynolds Tobacco Co., Manhattan Socialite E. Roland Harriman, Track Owner William Henry Cane of Goshen. N.Y. and John L. Dodge organized the Trotting Horse Club to revive a country gentleman's sport they feared was dying. For 53 summers the trotting descendants of the great U.S. trotter Hambletonian 10, sire of the 1850's, had pounded around the dirt tracks of the Grand Circuit: now bounded by Cleveland, Toledo, Salem, N.H., Goshen, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, N.Y., Indianapolis...
...Return of Cuba to a multi-crop system with peons now employed on the large sugar and tobacco plantations being established on smaller farms where they could produce their own sustenance in case of need...
...picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma of his kerosene lamp, his dry tobacco and the apples he kept piled upon a table...
...University, I am fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself not to use tobacco in any form, while...