For weeks ravenous U.S. cigaret smokers had disconsolately puffed noninflammable cigarets with strange trade names, most of which tasted like burning lint. Now the customers straggled vainly from store to store in the futile effort to find even these brands. By last week, the U.S. cigaret shortage had turned into a famine.
"Experts" predicted that the famine would get worse, and stay that way for a year. But no one seemed able to agree on either its cause or cure. Manufacturers said there was a manpower shortage. War Manpower Commission retorted that manufacturers had...
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