Word: cigarete
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...chairman. Since 1936, when they got the job of running Philip Morris, Chalkley & Lyon have been one of the smoothest management blends in the tobacco business. Chalkley keeps his eye on tobacco buying. Al Lyon does the selling. His first job was to turn Philip Morris from a "class" cigaret which sold only 3,800,000,000 a year into a popular brand...
...built low into the bulldozed hillside to afford maximum protection from Jap mortar and artillery fire. It consisted of two long dark green tents plus two operating rooms about 10 by 20 ft. which the Japs had built as concrete rainwater cisterns. The air inside was stuffy with stale cigaret smoke mingled with the smells of dirt and blood and sweat. But the rawboned Division surgeon, Commander Richard Silvis, was very proud of his operating rooms...
...smoking a cigaret now. Dr. Silvis said: "I put lipstick on him" - meaning that color had returned. He added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...
...Stack's drugstore in Kansas City a middle-aged man lit a cigaret with a trembling hand. "I got a boy in that 4th Division," he said, "and I don't know whether he's dead or alive. That's murder out there...
...Total Lend-Lease shipments of cigarets in 1944 were equivalent to one cigaret a week for each adult U.S. civilian; for every cigaret exported under Lend-Lease, 26 were sent to U.S. forces overseas, 55 were smoked at home. Why U.S. soldiers did not get theirs in the quantity set forth in the report was a question Mr. Crowley did not attempt to meet: soldiers in France and England would have to ask the Army Service Forces and the black marketeers in France for the answer...