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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scarcely be distinguished from Pernod Anise and called it L'Amourette. Frenchmen took to it delightedly. By 1928 the original firm of Pernod Fils was back in the business, and all three makers of wormwoodless absinthe were united in the Société des Etablissements Pernod. Their product was known in bars from Marseille to Singapore simply as Pernod. In 1938 Société des Etablissements Pernod paid its sixth consecutive 100% dividend, sold an estimated 15,000,000 bottles. Despite the absence of wormwood the French birth rate fell all through...
...grade manganese is all abroad, but the greatest supply of low-grade manganese in the world is near Butte, Mont. In World War I, U. S. producers went to work on their submarginal deposits, by 1918 were turning out 35% of U. S. needs. After the Armistice the cheaper product of foreign mines drove down U. S. production to the vanishing point. Last week from big Anaconda Copper came word that U. S. manganese would go to market again. Awarded to Anaconda by the new Government-owned Metal Reserve Co. was a contract for 240,000 tons of manganese...
...Grand Illusion or La Kermesse Héroique, Daybreak, perhaps the last major product of a cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual disenchantment that make most Hollywood pictures by comparison seem, for better or for worse, not quite grownup...
...Arnold makes his suit stick, the U. S. tobacco industry will have the rare distinction of being trust-busted twice in 30 years. The late, great James Buchanan Duke had built up a well-nigh invulnerable trust by 1910, controlled the market for every tobacco product but cigars. Roosevelt's and Taft's trustbusters broke it into pieces, rearranged the pieces so that there were at least two companies making each important product, four important cigaret makers. Those four, American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds, and Lorillard, plus hefty Newcomer Philip Morris, are the "Big Five" today...
...which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic novel, After Many a Slimmer Dies The Swan (TIME...