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Bright Leaf is the name of a strain of tobacco. [1] It was also the name of a 1949 novel and 1950 feature film about a struggle between two tobacco barons.. The struggle depicted in the feature film, according to McElwee family tradition, parallels one between McElwee's great-grandfather and the patriarch of the Duke family, for whom Duke University is named.
Bright Leaf is a 1950 American Drama Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal. It is adapted from the 1949 novel of the same name by Foster Fitz-Simons. The title comes from the type of tobacco grown in North Carolina after the American Civil War.
Instead bright tobacco was the historical product of decades of experimentation with various curing methods, seed varieties and soil types. The farmers realized that consumers would pay more for the sweeter and more aromatic qualities of the bright yellow leaf.
Prior to the American Civil War, the tobacco type mostly grown in the US was fire-cured, dark leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and was either fire cured, or air cured. Aromatic fire-cured smoking tobacco is dark leaf, [1] a robust variety of tobacco used as a condimental for pipe blends ...
The Tabakskollegium (tobacco society) of Frederick William I of Prussia (1737) Tobacco was introduced elsewhere in continental Europe more easily. Iberia exported "ropes" of dry leaves in baskets to the Netherlands and southern Germany; for a while tobacco was in Spanish called canaster after the word for basket ( canastro) , and influenced the ...
Purley in the north central part of the county is noted as the source of the earliest bright leaf tobacco. The Slade family lived here and it was on their plantation in 1852 that the first bright leaf was cured. A post office at Purley served the community from 1855 until 1920.
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The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica .