Word: cigarete
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...After a three-month study, OPA squashed a 9% cigaret price boost asked by big American Tobacco last December. Reasons: 1) tobacco-company profits last year were 21% of invested capital v. 17% in 1936-39; 2) current cigaret sales are 20% above 1941; 3) although production costs have risen 10-16%, they should be offset by greater volume...
...first night wasn't bad. Dixon would have loved a cigaret, but he lived. So did the other. When a searching plane missed their tiny raft the next day, they all realized that living was the only thing they had left...
...Bataan kept watching for him. Once in a while he would come around. Everything about him-the angle of his heavily braided cap, the swing of his brown, curve-handled cane, the uptilt of his long black cigaret holder, the shine on his four stars and brown shoes-everything was always jaunty. The men watched for his smile: they usually...
...They feared that, before Prohibition came again, youths of the Army would be seduced into swilling beer at taverns near their camps. God forbid, said the ladies, that World War II should produce a nation of beer drinkers. Weren't things bad enough, with the U.S. overrun with cigaret smokers who got the habit in World...
...basement of Washington's old House Office Building, a tall greying man with intense eyes and a lean, unsmiling face prayed for drought. Edward Page Gaston, brother of anti-cigaret Crusader Lucy Page Gaston, hoped that World War II would bring Prohibition...