Word: cigarete
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Prince George, as his car sped through London, was victim of a vicious skid, overturned. Nonchalant, His Royal Highness crawled from the wreck, straightened up, lit a cigaret, hailed a taxi...
...Cigaret Sales...
...alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
...took a cigaret, lit it, and went over and stood beside him. He said: 'This is a hell of a Christmas.' I asked him what was the matter and he replied: 'Everything is the matter.' I gathered from his mutterings that things were not all right with him in his domestic life. In this same conversation the President told me that there were things going on in the public business that he didn't approve but that he was helpless to stop them...
...this crowded march to sell cigarets Lorillard's have been successful with "Old Gold." The first of last July they were selling 2,000,000 a day. Last week they were selling 20,000,000 a day. But success has been costly. Lorillard's net income in 1925 was $5,641,431. Last year it was $4,117,197. This year it will probably be less. Advertising costs, although a trivial fraction of a cent for each cigaret sold, is altogether enormous. But continued success in selling "Old Gold" will far more than pay for advertising appropriations. Meanwhile...