Word: cigaret
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...According to the files, a preceptress came into Miss Willard's room and saw smoke curling up from a bureau drawer. Pulling open the drawer, she was horrified to find a half-burned cigaret. Miss Willard was apparently just like any other girl...
...London. The soldier follows her. learns all about her from her landlady and, still eager to marry her, finds her again on Waterloo Bridge. They say good-bye in another convenient tur moil of Zeppelins and searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving...
...extraordinarily free & frank way in which Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle kept them posted on the diplomatic negotiations which led up to the acceptance of President Hoover's debt moratorium. Last week the State Department's Correspondents' Association presented him with a silver cigaret box to show their appreciation of his candor. Declared Mr. Castle gratefully...
When 119,624,909,917 cigarets were produced last year against 119,038,841,560 in 1929 tobacco men hailed it as an indication of their industry's ability to withstand Depression. Last week, however, this stout business suffered a reversal. It was announced that July production was 10,705,532,520 cigarets, a decrease of 9.7% from July 1930. One reason for the sharpness of the decline was that during June the wholesale price was upped, retailers given a period of grace during which they stocked up. Also, July 1930 was the industry's best month ever...
That price may have a big bearing on cigarets during Depression was illustrated last week by the case of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd. For a long time this company has had the sales rights and, through an affiliated holding company, controlled the production of several prominent cigarets (Marlboro, English Ovals, Dunhill, Players) and pipe tobaccos (Revelation, Barking Dog). For about two years it has turned out a Paul Jones cigaret selling at 10? for a standard package of 20. By not advertising it, the company has saved nearly 5? a package on Paul Jones, kept quality up. Last week more...