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Reason for Reynolds' record lay partly in the depression-resist nature of the to bacco business, partly in the Camel boom resulting from the famed humidor (cello phane) pack. Introduced Jan. 2. 1931. to the accompaniment of a $50,000 prize contest for most moving description of its advantages, the cellophane-wrapped Camel occupied the cigaret-publicity spot light which George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. had previously almost monopolized. Exactly 952.228 U. S. citizens submitted letters testifying to Humidor Pack merit...
France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...
...days later the Paris Matin published Delcassé's last letter to Stéphane Lausanne, the violently patriotic editor. Delcassé said: "The Rhine is our security...