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...women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try a Pipe | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt stuffed another cigaret in his long ivory holder. The White House reporters asked: ". . . Anything you can tell us in the way of background on why it was necessary to call General Stilwell home?" The President flicked ashes from his chalk-striped suit, answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...success depended on the number of times you were taken out. The favor figures were the most exciting. The favors-sometimes a corsage, or a gay rosette of ribbons-were placed on a table at the end of the ballroom.... Later the tokens became more and more expensive-fans, cigaret cases, enameled watches, jeweled stickpins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Days of Old | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

When Sensale is not playing the contrabassoon he spends much of his time whittling the cigaret-shaped reeds of his 25-lb. instrument. He is interested in few extra-contrabassoon matters. Says he: "I would like better to be a playing contrabassoonist than a retired bassoonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Low Bassoon | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Camel-smokers walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle. Again & again weary clerks reminded shoppers, as nastily as they could, that there is a war on. Prospects for an early letup were gloomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORTAGES: Everything Goes | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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