Word: cie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studios, the wild religious longings that never left him. His only friend was his younger brother Theo. Together, before they went out into the world, they swore "to strive all their lives only for good." Vincent's family was connected with the Dutch branch of Goupil et Cie., famous Paris art dealers, and both Vincent and Theo got jobs in the business. Theo did well from the start, but Vincent took it, like everything else, too hard. Fired from his job, he plucked up enough conceit to enter the Church as a lay-reader, got himself sent...
...whiskey units where before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...
...Solvay & Cie is "one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world," interested in I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany and in British Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. The aim of the Solvay interests in wanting to elect new directors is to steal information for use by Allied's rivals. "The American Chemical industry is today fighting to maintain that [the American] market for American capital and American labor against the organized, combined and ruthless attacks of foreign competition...
Until last fortnight, Death had come to no man in an autogyro. Then LePere et Cie., French autogyro manufacturers, began experiments with a new type of autogyro, lacking auxiliary wings, movable tail surfaces, ailerons, supporting itself solely by its rotor which could be tilted from side to side or fore-&-aft, then locked in the new position. Test Pilot Pierre Martin took it up at the Villacoublay airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily...
Nelson Dean Jay (partner of Morgan et Cie., Paris...