Word: cigarets
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...hope came from Washington. Discovering that even Capitol restaurants were out of cigarets, the Senate's Mead Committee met in a smokeless room, decided to send investigators out. And this week the Federal Trade Commission announced it also would investigate the shortage. All over the U.S. the cigaret gags were getting bitter. Sample: "Ask the man who owns...
...weeks ravenous U.S. cigaret smokers had disconsolately puffed noninflammable cigarets with strange trade names, most of which tasted like burning lint. Now the customers straggled vainly from store to store in the futile effort to find even these brands. By last week, the U.S. cigaret shortage had turned into a famine...
...year. But no one seemed able to agree on either its cause or cure. Manufacturers said there was a manpower shortage. War Manpower Commission retorted that manufacturers had made no requests for manpower, crossly added that they probably would not get it if they did. This year's cigaret production is higher than ever before, but manufacturers complained that the Government estimate-cigarets for civilians are being turned out at 90% of normal-was far too high...
...gripes of cigaret-short U.S. civilians were tempered by the thought that at least the boys overseas were getting plenty. But that small comfort began to disappear fortnight ago when the weekly G.I. ration in London was cut from seven to five packs. Last week it vanished altogether when cigaret sales were stopped in all rear-area PXs in France and England, except at air combat stations, rest and replacement centers, and hospitals. Clamored the Army newspaper Stars & Stripes: "Where are the cigarets...
...than the average young star. His agent allows him $25 of his comparatively modest $750 a week for spending money; the rest goes into War Bonds and toward buying a house. He gets to bed by nine each working night, studies his script for an hour, smokes his one cigaret of the day. By mid-afternoon each day his right eye begins to droop and he has to take time off ; another result of his accident is an all but continuous headache...