Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves with his Wife-Senator Dixie Bibb Graves; 30,000 paraders from Pennsylvania; 1,200 Legionnaires from Kentucky with dried tobacco sheaves; Maine's Crooner Rudy Vallée (aged...
Died. Benjamin Lloyd Belt, 70, president of the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitefield, N. H. Tobacconist Belt, a horse-loving Virginian, became president of hoary P. Lorillard in 1924, immediately brought out Old Golds to keep pace with younger competitors...
...soil-depleting crops; 2) reduction in the base acreages lor the major soil-depleting crops. Cotton, for example, would be reduced from 34 million to 29-31 million acres. Other base acreages suggested: potatoes, 3,100,000 to 3,300,000 acres; rice 825,000 to 875,000 acres; tobacco, 1,400,000 acres; corn, 92,000,000 to 96,000,000 acres. Wheat was not mentioned, for wheat farmers, having yet to produce a normal carryover, may plant unrestricted...
Then Svedberg, Wyckoff and others weighed & measured the giants by whirling them in powerful ultracentrifuges. Stanley found that the virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease in plants is a huge molecule, which was weighed by Svedberg and Wyckoff at 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. The virus of noninfectious rabbit warts was isolated as a protein molecule weighing 20,000,000 units...
...tough question of the atomic architecture inside the molecule has yielded somewhat to the discovery that it must conform to mathematical limitations grouped under "stoichiometrical law." Stanley's tobacco mosaic virus, for example, was found to be not a long, thin chain but roughly egg-shaped...