Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise the $200,000,000 necessary...
Early this month President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...
...brands had to pay from 11? to 15? a package. Mr. Hill had not quite kept his promise-yet. He had cut the wholesale price of his Luckies from $6 per 1,000 (to which they were reduced from $6.85 last month) to $5.50 per 1,000. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price of 11? a package would give the dealers 1.3/10? profit...
...Doukhobors are thrifty, peace-loving. They eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco. In their communal life, marriages (compulsory for all) are effected simply by taking partners. The Doukhobors are averse to paying taxes and putting their children in provincial schools. Their resentment against schools they sometimes expressed by burning them. Nakedness is a part of the Doukhobors' religious practice, especially in a fanatical inner sect called the "Sons of Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons...
...Virginia came one John Rolfe, ambitious for gold but willing to work for it. He lost his young wife in child-birth but kept his faith in tobacco-planting. He and Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled...