Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There French & British fishermen swapped langouste (which Frenchmen prefer) for homard (which Englishmen prefer). Sometimes they robbed each other's lobster pots instead, fought pitched battles. But not until last week did the microscopic Minquiers Islands become an international trouble spot...
...started when envious French fisherfolk noting that perfidious Britons had built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...cases of lipstick poisoning have been pinned on Guerlain, Inc. Government officials let the Frenchmen off lightly, made them promise to treat U. S. lips more tenderly in the future...
...technically guaranteed by an international agreement. But since Britain's life line is drawn out hair-thin as it threads this needle's eye, 10,000 British troops, 400 British airmen guard it. Since most of the stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with...
...each entry on the table. The French bureau of pharmaceutical manufacturers has leased 24 instruments, two big automobile companies eight and six instruments respectively. The Mémophone cuts down toll charges by eliminating wrong numbers due to slips of memory or the finger. The practical Frenchmen who are boosting the Mémophone have assembled statistics showing that 15% to 17% of all hand-dialed calls are wrong numbers...