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Word: noisiel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Gaston Menier, 79, French Senator and chocolate tycoon; in Chateau de Noisiel, his estate near Paris. In 1896 he bought for $160,000 Anticosti Island, big as Connecticut, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, "commuted" to France in his yacht, was feudal overlord of 500 families until the island was sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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