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...Accuse! (M-G-M). The Dreyfus Affair was a tremendous social and political upheaval that rumbled on long after the legal proceedings (1894-1906) were closed, and in the process almost shattered France's Third Republic. In / Accuse!, the sordid, splendid story is told on the screen for at least the sixth time. Mistakes have been made in the picture: the political repercussions of the affair are scarcely suggested, and the fateful social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives...
After Lefaucheux was killed three years ago in an auto accident, Dreyfus, his longtime ramrodding chief of production, stepped into his job. He ordered the drive into the U.S. market, pushed output from 900 cars and trucks a day to 1,500 at present. He also steered sales from $409.6 million in 1955 to more than $500 million in 1957, including $130 million in export sales, making Renault the biggest French exporter. Of Renault's $14 million-plus profit in 1956, the state got $6,600,000 in taxes and $2,100,000 in after-tax profits. Another...
Looking to the future, Dreyfus has doubled Renault's research budget and staff. Of his 60,580 workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished...
Stores which so far will honor the club's credit cards are Chez Dreyfus and the Treeland Flower Shop in Cambridge; Simon and Sons Clothiers in Boston; Jack Williams Magic Gardens in Fresh Pond; Monticello Rest on Route 9; Robin Hood's Ten Acres on Route 20; and the Beacon Liquor Corporation in Brighton...
...merchants pay the club a commission for handling the bills of member students. Eugene Dreyfus of Chez Dreyfus claimed however, that the 30-day wait until the club sends out a student's bill and pays the merchants made the organization "not a very favorable item...