Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble Oil), Frederick Lockwood Lipman...
Upon the broad side of a barn on a farm in central Washington, appears the figure of the tobacco bull, in the identical gallant pose given him by bill posters everywhere. And on this barn, as on 10,000 others, the cow member of the cast regards Her Hero with the same wistful admiration and look of fond desire which caused the clubwomen of a California suburb to request the removal of the poster, as duly reported in TIME (July...
...products, certain fruits, unwrought copper (2d. a lb.), wheat (25. a quarter, or 6� a bushel); 3) continuation of the 10% ad valorem duty on foreign timber, zinc, lead, asbestos, fish (Canada had wanted the tariff on timber increased); 4) a ten-year extension of the preference on Canadian tobacco...
...most interesting case is that of Senator McKellar. This ardent champion of making the foreigner pay regardless of the consequences is a representative of the State of Tennessee. According to the World Almanac, Tennessee is primarily an agricultural state producing lumber, tobacco, cotton, corn and cattle. In 1930 it appears that of the total American production of tobacco 40% was exported, of cotton nearly 45%, of lard about 29%. It is plain, then, that the prosperity of Tennessee is intimately dependent upon a flourishing foreign trade and upon a recovery of world prices...
...reported a big loss and its bankers shoved out Gen eral Manager Carroll, replacing him with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost...