Business & Finance: Cut Price

Extravagant U. S. smokers may pay 15¢ for a 15¢ package of cigarets. Shrewd cigaret buyers, however, find little difficulty in getting two packs for a quarter, one pack for 13¢. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15¢ cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere.

Last week these various bad pennies turned up...

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