Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war another member of the Pernod dynasty, Jules, whose firm was called Pernod Pere et Fils, concocted an aperitif that tasted much like absinthe but was less bitter, contained no wormwood. This he called Pernod Anise. In 1920 a M. André Hémard produced a something that could scarcely be distinguished from Pernod Anise and called it L'Amourette. Frenchmen took to it delightedly. By 1928 the original firm of Pernod Fils was back in the business, and all three makers of wormwoodless absinthe were united in the Société des Etablissements Pernod...
...half (from 1415 to 1581) little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance. Then, in 1581, Philip II of Spain...
...Martin undoubtedly had in mind reports that while Mr. Root's clubs were doing very well, Mr. Root himself was not doing so well as a campaign organizer. Nominee Willkie announced after his conference with Messrs. Martin, Fletcher, Root, et al. that some bugs had been smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will...
Outstanding example of patriotic sacrifice for the U. S. is the National Defense Advisory Commission (Knudsen, Stettinius, et al.). While legislators have sniped at the Administration's defense plan from political trenches, while "Youth" has cried out against the inconvenience of conscription, many a U. S. businessman has dropped a plushy job for harder work at $1 a year at a Government desk in Washington. Last week in its headquarters in the marble Federal Reserve Building, in overflow quarters in three other buildings, NDAC had somewhere between 400 and 500 dollar-a-year men and salaried employes...
...Aberdeen & Rockfish. It is 45 miles long, owns three locomotives and connects the North Carolina towns of Fayetteville and Aberdeen. Known far & wide is A. & R. for a rather dubious distinction. Every time ICC cooks up a legal action against all U. S. railroads A. & R., with an et al. after its name, represents the entire list. But A. & R. has another distinction, which was gaining importance last week: it is the principal rail route to Fort Bragg, the U. S. Army's 125,000-acre artillery post. Since defense preparations began the little line has hauled some...