Word: cies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as for Drene, Shasta, Teel and other cleansers), had an occasion for considering the Dreft slogan. It was accused of having its closets full of dirty linen. In a Manhattan grand jury indictment, the Government charged that 1) the company was a front for the German soapmakers, Henkel & Cie.; 2) Hyalsol had dodged $500,000 in taxes. It was, trumpeted antitrust lawyers, "one of the largest and most cleverly operated frauds against the Government ever uncovered...
...answering salvo, pro-Picassos quoted Jaime Sabartes, Picasso's secretary and friend. Sabartes concedes that Picasso's work is sometimes, by ordinary standards, ugly. But he has an explanation. Wrote Sabartes, in a book published in Paris (Picasso, Braun & Cie...
...moral victory, the Government had little more to cheer about. Alcoa had at one time, the court found, tried to freeze out competing aluminum-sheet plants by charging more than a "fair price" for ingots. And Aluminium, Ltd. had also entered an illegal cartel, through the Alliance of Aluminium Cie. of Switzerland, which restricted imports of aluminum into...
...munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financière. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside...