Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clubs. Champion Heikes scored 99.9%, only her teeth counting against her. Pink-cheeked Miss Heikes eats three big meals a day, drinks water and milk, wears broad-toed, low-heeled shoes. Champion Saunders, who scored 99.1%, not only had imperfect teeth but a pimple. He shuns tobacco and stimulants, eats all he wants...
Nobody was more pleased than Benjamin Lloyd Belt, oldtime, Virginia-born tobaccoman. In the business 40-odd years, he has been with Lorillard since it became independent in 1911, a result of American Tobacco Co.'s dissolution as a trust. In 1925 Lorillard got a thorough shaking up and Belt for president. When he took hold he found the company had everything except a popular cheap cigaret. Beech-Nut, Lorillard's first venture into the blended field, had failed. American Tobacco Co. had its Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers its Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick...
...other bits of tobacco news last week threw sidelights on the industry...
Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for the year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers...
Discontented murmurs rose to muttered threats, curses. Prominent beside the auctioneers stood W. G. Crabtree, 50, vice president and general manager of Owensboro Loose Leaf Tobacco Co., operator of six of the seven '"floors" in the town. Farmers rejected bids right & left, began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You can't take our tobacco that way!" In the confusion someone began throwing apples at six-foot Mr. Crabtree, who dodged handily, but the auction, now a riot, was called off. Only 78,000 lb. of dark leaf tobacco, mostly for export to Europe for making cheap cigars, have...