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...Wagons-Lits auspices was Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk-Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars on which they could lay their hands, and still operate them. Germany operates more of her own sleeping cars than any other continental power. But Wagons-Lits expresses such as the "Nord Express" roar nightly over the Paris-Berlin-Riga route...
...result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...Shameless hawkers in the Gare du Nord sold what they said were scraps of cloth from her trousseau...
...Down to the railway station next clay to see Mrs. Lewis off on the Etoile du Nord went practically every foreign correspondent in Berlin. There they filled her arms with great sheaves of American Beauty roses...
...mach more in just a moment. He derives his power not only from being President of the Comite but as one of the principal owners of his own iron and steel concerns. Beneath him and his administrative board of the Comite there spread out six regional Committees: the Lorie Nord. I'Est, Miniere d'Alsace-Lorraine, Forges de Lorraine, and Champagne. The total tonnage that the members of the Comite produce in France in a typical year is, for pig iron some the 10,000,000 tons and for steel, some 9.500,000 tons...