Word: rivoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus spoke young General Bonaparte to 30,000 miserable French troops at Nice one day in March 1796. The shoeless Army with half-starved horses drawing the scant artillery marched past the Alps, through Piedmont, and onto the lush plains of Lombardy. An unbroken series of victories-Lodi, Arcola, Rivoli-and Northern Italy was Napoleon's first conquest...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
...1920s signs began to appear on cinema theatres: "Twenty Degrees Cooler Inside. BRRH!" Cooling Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre in 1925 cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier...
...timid stupidity when they do. In Red Salute, Producer Edward Small was patently under the impression that, by making the villain of the piece a campus radical, he was hurling an intellectual bombshell of some sort at the U. S. cinema public. The picture's release at the Rivoli Theatre in Manhattan last week actually caused a disturbance at which 18 adolescents were arrested for wagging idiotic handbills...
Paris put on an even greater demonstration for the fugitive King. Smiling wanly, he pushed his way through the crowd, drove to the swanky Hotel Meurice on the Rue de Rivoli where he had reserved an entire floor for his family and his followers at $600 per day. After Paris police warned that they could not protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their...