Interview with Gilbert Darnell, June 18, 1985

Interview Summary

Tobacco buyer for Parker Tobacco, smaller companies that went out of business, how dealers get orders, types of cities and differences in the work environment, relationship among buyers, Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, flue-cured tobacco, buying season, bidding process, first sale of a season, different tobaccos and use in cigarettes, differences in slick and grainy tobacco, how Parker Tobacco works with the co-op, different types of tobacco, wrapper tobacco, involvement in Honduras and Brazil, most important changes in tobacco business, foreign buyers, domestic companies' attitudes toward tobacco and how they use dealers, differences in tobacco according to region, work in the tobacco processing plant, houseburn tobacco, nicotine in tobacco

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agricultural processing plants Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Burley tobacco Cigarettes Conglomerate corporations Falls City Tobacco Company Family farms International trade Parker Tobacco Company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Tobacco industry Tobacco industry--Mergers Tobacco--Composition Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Varieties Warehouses

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