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Woolgatheress. In Huntington, W.Va., a woman flipped a letter into the street, mailed a lighted cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Modest Proposal. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat ran an advertisement: "Help wanted. Cigaret Girl - Gypsy Inn, 1100 S. Eighth. East St. Louis, Ill.; must bring own cigarets." Sidetracked. In Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Herr Krupp was annoyed. "Must I answer?" he snapped. "Yes," Colonel Sagmoen snapped back. Herr Krupp lit a cigaret from a silver case in his pocket, puffed anxiously, said: "Four hundred thousand marks a year [$160,000 at official prewar exchange rate]." All profits, he said, had been split between the Nazi Government and his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Herr Krupp & the Future | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Italian ex-P.O.W.s (now "co-belligerents") got some bad news. They will no longer be able to buy any of the six popular brands of cigarets at the various service camps where they are stationed. The cigaret shortage has become so severe that they will have to get along on other brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Life | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...warm spring night, a lovely night for a stroll. As the Marquis sauntered serenely down the quiet street, two alert carabinieri passed. They sniffed. The rare and mouth-watering fragrance of the Marquis' cigaret was unmistakably American. The carabinieri exchanged an eloquent look, and strode after the Marquis. It is a black-market offense for an Italian in Rome to possess American or British cigarets. Sure enough, the carabinieri found two packs of Chesterfields in the Marquis' pockets. Into the pokey he went, for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Marquis & the Smell | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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