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Now the tobacco trade is asking: "Can the Chinaman be taught to smoke? If so, what?" Inquiry reveals the fact that in China the old fashioned water pipe is passing, and cigars are too expensive for popular consumption. On the other hand, the coolie is taking very kindly to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Celestial Smokers | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

The principal effect of the War period upon the tobacco business has been the increased sales of cigarettes as compared with cigars. Under growing use of cigarettes by soldiers and their increasing popularity among women, consumption mounted in an astonishing manner. On the other hand, the cigar business could no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tobacco Consumption | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

Opium. The Council confirmed the authority of the Preparatory Committee, of which the U. S. is a member, to draft the guiding principles for the first of two international conferences on opium to be held next November, with the object of limiting opium consumption in the Far East, China, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: A Busy Week | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

The offer of a Munich publisher to print the best of recent American literature "for Continental consumption" seems to suggest a way in which the cultivated classes of Europe might be pressed into service as an impartial jury on American literature. The annual flood of spring literature might first be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE BRASS CHECK" | 3/20/1924 | See Source »

The recent upturn in copper prices, accompanied by signs of increased consumption and improved conditions among European nations, was hastily seized upon by many as proof that all American copper companies were in for better times. Anaconda copper suddenly passed its dividend, followed shortly afterwards by Inspiration and Calumet and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda Dividend | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

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