Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1928, a French company, Aeropostale, opened a route from France to Dakar by plane, across the Atlantic by boat to Brazil, by plane via Uruguay to Buenos Aires. One of the great ventures of a business age. the creation of Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, Aéropostale could get an airmail letter from Paris to Argentina and a reply back in less time than U.S. business correspondence could make the one-way trip from New York...
...Marcel Peyrouton, anathema to the De Gaullists, patriotically offered to resign as Governor General of Algeria, General de Gaulle promptly accepted. Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup...
...Marcel Peyrouton, hardboiled, flabby-jowled onetime sponsor of Vichy's version of the Nürnberg Laws and later Ambassador to Argentina, has been Giraud's chief political administrator. Peyrouton has done a good job under his new masters...
...last week. Saboteurs blew up a troop train near Dijon, killed 250. In Lyon a German detachment was ambushed and scattered with hand grenades. Bombs killed 23 Nazi officers at a Lille cafe. For the fifth time since 1941, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the arch-collaborationist Marcel...
...oboe keeps all its players anxious. Their worries are perhaps responsible for the legend that oboists inevitably go crazy. The silvery, reedy beauty of fine oboe tone is won only by the most skillful and unrelenting war against squeaks. In this war no one is more skillful than Marcel Tabuteau. This grey-haired, brawny, 55-year-old Frenchman earns about $300 a week as the star of the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsurpassed wood winds...