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...scope of the cigaret black market was easier to pin down. In Manhattan probably 20 to 25% of all the cigarets for civilians were moving through the black market. Result: many a smoker was glad to pay 50? for a 17? pack of cigarets, more than glad when a black marketeer gave him a chance at a carton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Flood Tide | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...smoker, taking any kind of cigaret he could get last week, found himself also short of matches. The free match book that once went with every pack of cigarets had gone, and the smoker was hard put to it to buy matches of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light on Lights | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Those Women Sirs: In news items and editorials, I fail to find any statement giving the major cause of the cigaret shortage, which is the tremendous increase in smoking by women. One sees on the streets, in public buildings, in common carriers, females of all ages puffing on cigarets. A few days ago I saw four women in a Pullman compartment, all well over 70 years of age, all four attempting to smoke. The process to them appeared to be exceedingly uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Floored. In a Newark, N. J., railroad station, Michael Babich boldly asked an employe for a cigaret, got it, fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: How to Be Roomy | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

This dispassionate ceremony is the ritual of a mystical order of which slight, agreeable, cigaret-smoking Swami Prabhavananda is the Los Angeles leader. It is an outgrowth of a small monastic community founded in India late last century in the name of Sri Ramakrishna, one of the great teachers of Indian Vedanta, the underlying philosophy of Indian religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Universal Cult | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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