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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...usual Brother Svetozar Pribitchevitch led the pack last week, caused to be secretly circulated around Belgrade a book called King Alexander's Dictatorship. In this book Svetozar Pribitchevitch accuses His Majesty of planning a "desperate expedient" to save his Crown, nothing less than the "amputation" of that part of Jugoslavia which is fullest of troublemakers, namely Croatia...
...makers of 15?-a-pack cigarets last week did what they had been expected to do for a long time-slashed prices. Acting in concert as they always do, the Big Four -American Tobacco (Lucky Strike), Reynolds Tobacco (Camel), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield), Lorillard (Old Gold)-dropped the wholesale price from $6.85 a thousand to $6. Though no one ever knows what the Big Four will do, few people expected the cut to be so deep, for a year and a half ago the price had been upped, presumably because of Cellophane wrappings, from $6.40 a thousand...
...Four's move was a counterattack to stop the forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five...
United Cigar Stores, Schulte, Liggett and other chain organizations promptly passed on part of the cut to consumers, dropping the retail price1? to 13? a pack, two for a quarter. The Big Four were disappointed that the retail price was slashed no more, were said to stand ready to cut & cut the wholesale price until their cigarets retail...