Word: cigarets
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...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
...best-seller cigaret among U.S. troops in London last week was Chelsea, a comparative newcomer, which outstripped all combined old-established brands 2½-to-1. The best-seller in Australia was a onetime "10?" brand called Domino, followed by Wings, Raleigh and Avalon. Reason: there were few if any Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes, Old Golds and Philip Morris available. At the Army canteen nearest MacArthur's headquarters, Avalons had been for a fortnight the only cigaret available...
...overseas soldiers one of the minor mysteries of war has been the cigaret supply. In the Philippines men who had to eat carabao and mule meat could understand why their cigarets dwindled to a pack a week and finally disappeared. But U.S. troops in Australia whose supply has never been seriously impeded do not know yet why they smoked a low-selling brand like...
Franklin Roosevelt stuffed another cigaret in his ivory holder, leaned far back in his big chair, told his press conference, as usual, that he had "no news except. . . ." Then he proceeded to fill out the "except...
...Cigaret company ads were generally extreme. For a time the main occupation of soldiers, sailors and marines seemed to be the measuring of long Pall Malls against regular-sized cigarets...