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...francs plus 100 francs tip to waiter who was not supposed to bring anything to rooms. Lunch without wine -350 francs. Dinner with half-bottle of wine -500 francs. Firewood for room in the evening-150 francs plus 100 francs tip (no tip, no wood). Telephone calls, newspapers, aspirin and tips to maid who smoothed bed and boy who brought paper handkerchiefs - 350 francs. Total for the day -1620 francs...
...into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
...agent for huge I. G. Farbenindustrie, with strictly U.S. drugs. In so doing, it: 1) surprised itself by making a lot of money (over $700,000 last year, almost 10% of its total net income); 2) became a potent agent in U.S. economic warfare. Starting from 'scratch on aspirin, for example - which used to be a $3,500,000-a-year I. G. business - Sterling has now developed more than that for its own trademarked product. Total gross in Latin America: $10,000,000 a year...
...Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer aspirin cross.* Thereafter, the trademarks will be kept off the market and German exporters will be forced to promote brand-new trade names...
After Colgate toothpaste, St. Joseph aspirin, etc., nightclubs, numerous movies and marriage (to Cinemactor Jon Hall), she landed on Hope's Pepsodent show three years ago − just in time for World...