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"The women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I...
High Prices. In Chicago's district court, antitrust intervened in a patent-infringement suit brought by the foundation. Last week antitrust charged that the foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress...
Nine alumni started the foundation in 1925, which has no direct connection with the university. Each put in $100. They picked as president a crack patent lawyer, Chicago's grey-maned, hard-bitten George Haight. Since then, Haight has decided which companies will be licensed to use the Steenbock...
¶ Civilians were getting 2.09% fewer cigarets this year than last. The shortage, universal throughout the U.S., had only started; leading brands will be increasingly scarce during the winter, with no real letup until after V-E day. Reasons: 1) manpower; 2) shortage of paper for shipping cartons; 3) a...
¶ Huge Government purchases of cigars-especially the 3? to 12? brands-will this year leave cigar smokers with half the cigars they bought in 1942. What is left to buy are mostly expensive imported cigars, which most smokers have never heard of and which they do not like.