Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sour went the notes in the love song of Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he a tobacco millionheir, they co-founders and sponsors of the splashy, noisy Newport, R.I. annual jazz festival. Filing suit for separation, blonde, pretty Elaine-who met him in Italy during World War II, when he was an Army major, she a Red Cross aide-charged that Louis had locked her out of their Manhattan cooperative apartment and packed her belongings off to a nearby hotel while she was away for a weekend...
...crippled digestions multiplied in her case histories, Dr. Jordan found that 55% had no ulcer or other organic cause of illness. Instead, their digestive tracts were rebelling against their owners' abuse-with hastily wolfed meals, rich and heavily spiced foods, often washed down with alcohol and-cured in tobacco smoke. Many compounded the mischief by harmful self-medication, especially with laxatives. For these, as well as for the follow-up care of the more serious cases with active ulcers (which might require surgery or at least a couple of weeks in the hospital), Dr. Jordan laid down a series...
...William Byrd I came to Virginia from England in 1672, became a tobacco planter, slave dealer and president of the Colonial Council; William Byrd II (1674-1744) owned Westover plantation, 179,000 acres overlooking the James River; Harry Byrd's father, Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860-1925), was speaker of the Virginia house of delegates and a U.S. district attorney; Harry's brother, the late Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the first man to fly to the North and South Poles...
...crocodiles carry him off before he can plant a single bean row, but Todd shows up, ready to offer her "anything that Harry did"; he even slips a wedding ring on her finger, by way of keeping the territorial priest happy. With the help of native labor, a rich tobacco crop springs from the land, and Actress Greco gets noticeably productive herself. But the natives go off on a binge instead of liftin' that bale, and she loses the child while a crocodile looks on gloomily. Why should a stillbirth transfix a crocodile? It must have been the bright...
CHARLOTTE (pop. 163,000), WINSTON-SALEM (pop. 120,200), GREENSBORO (pop. 120,100), prospering, industrialized, diversified-tobacco, steel structures, chemicals, textiles, electronics, insurance offices, etc.-stately, segregated, forward-looking prototype cities of the New South, Great Southeast Empire...