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Said Paris' Franc-Tiretir: "No one is really an enemy of wine-in France-but it is hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third...
...Frenchmen. The crux of France's wine problem is overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...
...Frenchmen, of course, prefer the better wines, but they are far too expensive. So the French consume less table wine than they used to, and the government supports prices by buying up low-grade wines to convert into industrial alcohol. Nevertheless, the problem of surpluses gets worse. Wine is the backbone of the French economy. As the country's biggest business, employing 5,000,000, it brings in more government revenue than any other industry: 70 billion francs a year ($200 million...
...effectives total 248,000, including 18,000 in the navy and air force, and 180,000 in the native Vietnamese army commanded by General Nguyen Van Hinh, combat-pilot son of Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn. The bulk of non-native forces is composed of 52.000 Frenchmen, plus Senegalese, North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires. The French Union troops have suffered 147,000 casualties, including 60,000 killed or dead of wounds (5,000 more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms...
...villas and costly cars. The move flushed some big game right away, e.g., one man who owned three cars, employed three servants and declared no income was soaked for $42,000 in taxes and penalties. In the first roundup, delinquencies of $86 million were uncovered. But again, skepticism reigned. Frenchmen shrugged and guessed that evaders who knew how to win political protection would not be caught; in any case, the tax system as well as tax enforcement needed remodeling from the ground...