Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Louis used the formula of a Dr. Ordinaire, who was celebrated up & down the Alps for cures effected with mountain herbs. One of these herbs was wormwood, an excellent stomachic, which by the time of World War I had also acquired a reputation as an aphrodisiac, thereby helping to enrich the firm of Pernod Fils, leading manufacturer of absinthe. In 1914 the publisher of a small Paris newspaper started a campaign to prohibit absinthe, based on the popular beliefs that: 1) wormwood is an aphrodisiac; 2) continued use of aphrodisiacs produces impotence; 3) France is a nation of absinthe sippers...
...market: the consumer market for electric refrigerators, irons, and other domestic appliances. Hand in hand with the sale of mass-production appliances went an increase in utility sales to residential customers-up 109% in kilowatts from 1929 to 1939. This major boom did not suffice to enrich the utility industry, which had too many other troubles. But it did enrich...
...running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again to protect and enrich big business. In so arguing Mr. Sargent has used questionable logic to support a desirable end--non-intervention...