Word: cigarets
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...Italy the departure of U.S. troops had cut the supply of cigarets to the point where a cigaret currency crisis had set in. The value of a carton was as erratic as that of a lira. Enterprising Italians were doing their best to restabilize by "importing" cigarets by mass smuggling...
...France, where smuggling was somewhat less effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...Austria, a year ago, a carton of cigarets had been worth $100, and comfortable Vienna apartments had rented for two packs a month. A carton was still worth $15. But last week the Austrian Government had the schilling so well under control that real money was driving out cigaret currency. Americans in Austria still use cigarets as their standard tips...
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...
...club), spends most of his evenings with a whiskey or beer before his fire reading biographies, mysteries, books on astronomy-or almost anything else that gets into print. Characteristically, he was only mildly disturbed last month when burglars broke into his home and left with his watch and cigaret case. Said he: "I'd hate to think it was one of my clients...