Word: cigarete
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Tobacco companies set a new cigaret production this year. They made 258 billion tax-paid cigarets in their fiscal year ended June 1944, 13 billion more than in record-breaking 1943. They produced more billions for the Army and the Navy. But despite this fabulous production, the U.S. public has oversmoked its way into a national shortage...
...meat-and-butter scarcity. This month, Detroit's Cunningham's (chain stores) got about 70% of its July 1943 order. Asked what brands were short, an Atlanta jobber answer replied, "Lady, not to give you a short answer-all of them." Five times in five minutes the cigaret-counter girl at a Walgreen store in Chicago repeated wearily, "We have no name brands." Only in Columbia, S.C. was there an oasis in the cigaret-short South...
Like a Tornado. The wartime U.S.A. that Dos Passes saw on his trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes...
...eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...
...also loves to sneak up on fellow reporters in the dead of night, scare the day lights out of them with a belch which has been favorably compared with the bark of a French 75. There are probably still some G.I.s who would not give their last cigaret or blanket to Ernie Pyle. But nothing that any G.I. can scrounge from another is too good...