Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto the earnings of two swimming pools on his property enable Dr. William James McCormick to devote himself to hobnobbing with learned doctors, doing an occasional piece of medical research. Last year he read about the research Drs. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Leon A. Greenberg had done on tobacco smoking (TIME. July 2, 1934). Those two Yale scientists found, as have other physiologists, that nicotine makes the adrenal glands excrete adrenalin which makes the liver and muscles pour their stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...Production Wheat 731,045,000 496,929,000 Corn 2,044,601,000 1,377,126,000 Oats 1,266,243,000 528,815,000 Barley 316,850,000 118,348,000 Rye 53,100,000 16,040,000 Apples 1 70,000,000 119,855,000 Tobacco...
...tobacco was selling at 10¢ per lb. An AAA processing tax kited it to 21¢ per lb. That was the price agreed upon as giving tobacco-growers pre-War parity. In expounding the processing tax to Congress, Secretary Wallace had declared that "once pre-War parity is reached, the tax is completely removed." But tobacco is now selling at 27¢ per lb. and AAA is still levying its processing tax. Thus to the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry last fortnight complained S. Clay Williams, board vice chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), onetime chairman of NIRB...
Married. George Washington Hill, 50, president of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes); and Mary T. Barnes, 39, his secretary; in London...