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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Publisher | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: White Bread, Champagne | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sterling's Economic Warfare | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sterling's Economic Warfare | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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