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...movies go, New York is definitely having a substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City went a handsome map of France from the Michelin Tire people in Paris. The map reached its goal despite the address on the envelope: "Mr. O'Dewey, Maire de New York...
...these dusty clay hills take the place of trenches and are sometimes supplemented by small dugouts along their sides. There are no ordnance or survey maps at all-Spain has never been surveyed. The only maps available are the tourist road maps put out by the big French companies, Michelin and Taride. It is a terrible thing to see an artillery or infantry operation in open country being carried on by a man who is only able to feel his way by means of a crude tourist road map. The 'lines' are very rough, there is no regular...
...hesitated to accuse Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen in circles close to the Church and the General Staff have their list of Communists, proletarian militants and officials of the Soviet Embassy in Paris whom they accuse of preparing a Leftist coup...
...Michelin, the historic French firm of pneumatic tire pioneers, is one of Citroën's largest creditors. With some 30,000,000 francs ($2,000,000) at stake, Michelin decided last week to gamble on the popularity of the new Citroën. Perhaps in another three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into...