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Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
...swung the apple & pear-wine deal was Raymond Clendenin Miller of AAA. A native of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...
Alligator Pear Stuffed with Lobster...
...days when Paris was lit by gas instead of neon lights and Lithographer Honoré Daumier was discovering that Louis Philippe, "the Bourgeois Monarch," had a head like a pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing...
...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...