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Appealing to the rest of the world to join France on the Soup Standard, Blue Ribboner Reeves-Smith, who worked as a lad in the discriminating French wine house of Calvet et Cie. in Bordeaux, declared, "In France the working classes have a higher standard of cooking, more interesting food and a greater variety of food at less cost than in England, notwithstanding that food is cheaper here...
...quantity of Missouri portraits, and a lengthy series of paintings of river boatmen, fishermen, frontier riflemen, fur traders, election day crowds, etc., etc. They were so highly admired by his contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting and one of tire two known proofs of that lithograph were both...
...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...
Last week in the annual report of Hotchkiss & Cie Managing Director Benet had happy news for his stockholders. Due to an improvement in the arms business, profits for 1933 were $1,005,785 compared to $992,358 for 1932. Therefore he was able to declare a dividend of 65 francs per share ($4.32), compared to 60 francs ($3.98) a year...
Despite its million-dollar net profits Hotchkiss & Cie is really small fry in the armament world compared to such a French giant as Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory...