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...months 600 of the 2,400 French perfume manufacturers have gone out of business. Another 600 are expected to close shop by the end of the year. Most were fly-by-nights who set up in business during the war and filled fancy flacons with any sweet, synthetic smell-or colored water-that chemists could brew. They cleaned up, selling to the unsophisticated Nazis and later to the G.I.s...
...woman stalked into Guerlain's shop on the Avenue des Champs-Elyseés. She had a complaint to make to the proprietor in person: "Monsieur, your perfume doesn't smell as good as it used to." One of the dignified old gentlemen who now run the company snapped: "My perfume never changes. If anything doesn't smell as good as it used to, it must be you, Madame...
...morning, the people left in Texas City tried to count their dead. There were 200 bodies in the gym. They lay in blanketed rows, each body tagged with a yellow identification slip.* The smell of smoke and blood hung thick over relatives bending to look at the tags. Occasionally someone whimpered, or fainted, or turned woodenly and walked out. One young woman begged to be admitted out of turn to find her young husband. "We only been married a month," she explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another...
...have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their way and opened the highway again to traffic. The cars rushed past, filling the night with the smell of gasoline...
...Legend. To Henry Ford, the smell of gasoline had been like perfume. He was born a tinker, not a farmer, which was what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years...