Word: cigarets
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Misqueue. In Portland, Ore., standees in a cigaret queue complained that the line was moving slower & slower, discovered after two hours they had queued up in front of the income-tax office...
...baffled jailers guessed that they had made a lock impression for their keys with wet cigaret papers, had formed them with a hidden sliver of nail file. Recalling the accuracy of Cook's prediction, they thought uneasily of another of his announcements...
...hearty welcome to the members of the N.R.D.G.A. last week (see above) was stocky, suntanned Milton Reynolds, who flew in from Mexico. The reason Reynolds exuded smiles and cheer was that he had something unique to sell. He told amazed retailers that he could deliver Mexican-made, sterling silver cigaret lighters at the rate of 20,000 a month. The price: $6 each, including U.S. customs duty...
Suspicion, wheedling, indignation, and the haunting eyes of the tobaccoless have hounded the nation's cigaret retailers since the coming of the great famine. This week, because OPA could not or would not, the tobaccomen grimly moved to their own defense...
Thus, reasoned NATD, cigaret-hoarders may be lured back to one source of supply where they can expect a steady though meager ration (NATD anticipated a daily supply of 15 cigarets per person for 1945). NATO's 1,200,000-odd U.S. retailers (except those serving transients only) will follow the plan-or they won't get cigarets. The rest will depend on the conscience of the nation's smokers...