Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compulsory limits on the production of cotton and tobacco producers and imposed prohibitive taxes on production in excess of quotas...
...Distributed benefit payments for crop reduction of $225,000,000 to cotton farmers, $162,000,000 to wheat farmers, $31,000,000 to tobacco growers, $253,500,000 to corn-hog raisers, $6,000,000 to sugar growers. Total...
...National Guard modeled on the Marines. By 1930 he was Chief of the Army and ready to take over the Presidency in the first of his dummy elections. He clamped on the lazy, illiterate, Spanish-speaking near-whites his own personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child...
...first meeting of the organization will be held on Tuesday, May 21, when Aaron Volleman will address the group on labor conditions in the tobacco industry...
Reynolds Metals has long since outgrown its dependence on the tobacco industry: only about 30% of its business is in that field. Specializing in the art of packaging, it now makes anything from wine caps to book jackets, from ham wrappers to ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat...