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...clear that what remained of France had resigned itself to becoming an agrarian State. With few industries, only two great cities (Marseille and Lyon), a population consisting mainly of peasant landowners, the France that curves about the Mediterranean had no other choice. Its chief products are poultry and cheese, wine and tobacco, truffles, pâté de foie gras. The silk industry has its own cocoons in southern Cévennes. There are tall pine forests along the Atlantic coast. Most of Petain's decrees last week dealt with family life and rural homesteads. One law provided that...
...Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild...
...SALE-200 MILES OF MAGINOT LINE. Only slightly used. Can be cut up and made into nice comfortable storm pits, wine cellars or foundations for WPA privies...
Twenty-two years had passed since the 14-year-old Belgian girl and the American aviator had met, but they recognized each other instantly (see cut). She had married a wine importer, Michel Van den Bogaerde, and they had come to the U. S. Business got bad, and Michel had opened a small restaurant in Greenwich Village. To help family finances, Julia was working as a companion to Mrs. Frederick C. Horner, wife of the assistant to the chairman of General Motors. Her two sons were in school. The two old friends lunched, talked about Courtrai...
...strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce 100% of the world's supply. Last week Armstrong Cork's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr. was glad he had a six to nine months' stock on hand. This would...