Word: cigarete
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...cramped though that life is, it is also a busy one. Up with the six o'clock-rising mountain eagles, King Zog sips steaming hot Turkish coffee, puffs on a Turkish cigaret, begins his day's work. From then on, except for ten minutes' exercise every two hours, he is at his desk in one of the palaces until midnight. His chief diversion is listening to U. S. phonograph records, played on a U. S. phonograph...
...Open Letter also quotes many an anti-cigaret speech and editorial, including the previously cited Methodist Moral Bulletin. Said the Salt Lake City Deseret News: "Damage incalculable . . . dastardly campaign." Said Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, head of International Society of Christian Endeavor: "Womanhood is being exploited for trade...
...Golds advise smoking Old Golds, eating sweets, enjoying both. Say Camels: "With a cigaret as good as Camels, the truth is enough...
Extravagant U. S. smokers may pay 15? for a 15? package of cigarets. Shrewd cigaret buyers, however, find little difficulty in getting two packs for a quarter, one pack for 13?. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15? cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere...
...selling last week at around 24. The 1928 earnings were $3.96 a share compared to $4.91 in 1927. Angry, Mr. Schulte threatened to put lunch counters and "novelty" merchandise in his stores, thus (like United Cigar with its Happiness Candy alliance), to alleviate cigaret competition by adding non-tobacco merchandise...