eads and bales, the leaf is carried on conveyor belts toward its ultimate destinythe giving of smok ing pleasure. There is no need for a human hand to touch the tobacco from the moment tlle giant hogsheads of tobacco move on automatic conveyors into the proc essing areas of the new Greensboro plant until the time the finished cigarettes roll out of a making machine at a rate of , a minute. When it was opened, the Greensboro factory was named one of the ten "Top Plants of the Year" by Factory Magazine the first time any tobacco factory had been so honored. The only major cigarette factory of this design in the United States, it is, with minor exceptions, a single level operation, so that the straightdine, almost completely automatic flow of tobacco in the various p