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Word: stummels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Age of the Cigaret | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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