Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
Married. Hélène Kenyon Fortescue, 22, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie Bell (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.) and Julian Louis Reynolds, 26, son of Vice President Richard Samuel Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); in Washington...
Without comment the thoughtful New Republic published a list of 158 companies with the names and salaries of their highest-paid officers, paralleled this list with another showing the average weekly wage in their industry. Payment ranged downward from $304,398 for American Tobacco's George Washington Hill to a low of $40,000, found in four instances, while average weekly wages ran from $38.45 (fire insurance) to $12.53 (textile). Outstanding disparity: Mr. Hill's compensation contrasted with the average $13.76 a week earned by workers in the tobacco industry...
...they did come. But the only permanent solution, declared Administrator Hopkins, was to turn much of the West's cropland into pasture, run the enormous political and sociological risk of moving families wholesale off their ruined acres. By week's end rain had revived the cot ton, tobacco and spirits of the South, but for most of the West there was no relief, no prospect of relief. With some 100,000,000 bushels of wheat burned away, crop statisticians last fortnight gave up all hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting a large...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...