Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to G. F. Baker's letter in June 26 issue, the "socalled Tree Soldier'' does not get his tobacco, laundry, chewing gum and shows free. Mr. Baker should be around here sometime and see how the laundry is done "free," with every man draped over a wash tub and wash board...
...following are a few of the discrepancies made between the Regulars and the so-called "Tree Army'': The pay of a private soldier is $17.85 per month with $1.50 taken out for laundry. The soldier must pay his tailor, barber, and tobacco bills out of this amount. The soldier is sworn to protect the United States against all enemies for three years. The government expects the soldier to keep his part of the contract, and has a place for him, with a high wall around it to keep him in if he fails to keep his oath...
...jobless "Tree Army" boy receives $30 pay per month, with laundry, tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows free. He takes no oath and is free to go home any time he chooses. It has been estimated that not more than 30% of the accepted candidates for the C. C. C. could have passed the Regular Army enlistment examination, therefore the higher qualified 70?-per-day soldier has been cut to 59½? per day so that the budget could be balanced, and the unqualified, out-of-job boy may be paid $1 per day for doing useless labor...
...York City, Cobbler Chris Listakis agreed to lend a stranger $60 to pay the tax on $900 worth of tobacco which he said the Government was withholding from him. The stranger told him to bring the money to an address on Centre Street which he described as ''the Government tax building." Listakis arrived with the money, gave it to the tobacconist, sat down against a carved lion while his friend went inside for the "release papers.'' He waited a half-hour, grew exasperated, went inside. "Could you tell me," he asked a uniformed officer, "where...
Five feet three inches high, weighing nearly 125 lb., a man who dislikes tobacco, is indifferent to good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing a magnificent willingness to take risks, he has been long and short on a big scale in most commodities, many stocks. He engages extensively in the very risky business of writing puts and calls. He made a fortune (reputedly $2,000,000) in the post-War boom, was cleaned...