Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddy-looking white jade was used for mouth pieces for tobacco and opium pipes in China due to its cheapness. This was also on sale in Harbin and places in Manchuria...
...great, wooden-floored warehouse is neatly piled with bunches of tobacco leaves. Buyers inspect them, fingering them, and measuring them with their eyes. The auctioneer, at one end of the room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention...
Last week in North Carolina the annual "tobacco break" was again taking place. Highways were filled with trucks and wagons, crowds jammed into the warehouses. Their crops reduced by abandoned acreage, drought and insects, the growers were delighted when the chanting did not stop at the "ay-ay-ay'' of eight or the "ni-ni-ni" of nine. Average prices varied from 10? to 13? against 4? to 6? last year. Despite their poor crops, most farmers fared better than in 1931. All the big companies making 15?-packages of cigarets were actively in the market. They hoped...
...best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines, liqueurs and cigars from Acker, Merrall & Condit. Its wholesale tobacco business was sold to Faber, Coe & Greggs...
George Washington Hill, tobacco tycoon, bought $2,500,000 life insurance through James Roosevelt, 25, eldest son of the Democratic presidential nominee...