Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from clippings, books and magazines which his employes are expected to mark for him every day. His usual clients regard him as all-wise, even when he persuades them to take courses against their will. For instance, he advised George Washington Hill to make a full report to American Tobacco stock-holders on the company's bonus system...
...pack went the "15?" brands of cigarets last week- from 10½? to 11½?. For once the price change was not the work of American Tobacco's George Washington Hill. This time it was retailers, long-suffering non-combatants in the war between makers of "15?" brands and the makers of "10?" brands (which were boosted...
Schulte, United Cigar, Liggett and most small dealers joined in the price-upping, hoped that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. would see fit to follow. Tobacco men believed that the move had at least the tacit approval of Mr. Hill who, believing he has the 10-centers licked, is reported to be pondering a boost in the wholesale price...
...Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
...times. They were stood in schoolhouse corners together and together they hunted rabbits on the downs, puffins', petrels', and gulls' nests on the cliffs. At Halloween they snared thrushes for a midnight roast, and once at Ventry, on the mainland, they got tipsy on ale and tobacco, gave a sharper a beating and watched great brawny Tigue...