Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first plan for farm relief yet advanced which goes to the heart of the problem by seeking to control production. If the scheme is adopted the government will in effect grantee to every farmer who agrees to reduce by twenty per cent his average in wheat, cotton, or tobacco or his tonnage in hogs, a bounty sufficient to raise the prices of farm products as compared with industrial products to the level of twenty years ago. This bounty in turn will be collected from the millers packers and other processes of the four products, who will pass the burden...
Early last summer Kreisler thought he would have to part with some of the rare books and manuscripts which he has stored in his house near Berlin but he and Mrs. Kreisler (the former Harriet Lies, daughter of a U. S. tobacco merchant) went to Monte Carlo, won $10.000 which tided them over...
...William Roy Ronald, editor of the Mitchell (S. Dak.) Evening Republican. As set forth in the "purely tentative" Jones bill, Domestic Allotment would work approximately as follows: Thirty days after enactment, the Secretary of Agriculture would publicly estimate what percentage of the 1933 U. S. production of cotton, wheat, tobacco and hogs will be absorbed by U. S. consumers. To each producer of these four staples he would give an "adjustment certificate" stating his share of the output to be thus consumed. Example: If two-thirds of the wheat crop is for domestic consumption and a farmer is raising...
...certificates, negotiable, would have fixed values as follows: wheat 42? per bu.; cotton 5? per lb.; tobacco 4? per lb.; hogs 2? per lb. After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary...
...professor at the University of Illinois, his uncle and grandfather taught at Amherst. His brother, the late Lucien Esty, wrote Ask Me Another books. Just before Thanksgiving Day, William Esty & Co. landed its first big account-and only one so far. It was that of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. which spends $15,000,000 a year on advertising Camels and Prince Albert. When Reynolds introduced Camels in 1913 the account was given to N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. It remained there until 1931 when Erwin, Wasey & Co. obtained it and launched the famed cellophane campaign with...