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...exams for the naval academy, where he graduated second in his class ("I even studied with a flashlight in bed"). He set out to learn how to fly, had soloed and was about to graduate from the navy's air academy when he borrowed his father's Salmson sports car to go to a wedding. Rounding a curve, the headlights suddenly flickered out. When Cousteau crawled from the wreck, his left arm was broken in five places, his right was paralyzed. The doctors wanted to amputate his left arm. "I refused, thank God," says Cousteau. "You are always...
...Sidney this means an estimated $40,000 a year, a little estate outside Paris, where he fishes in his private lake, and a specially built ($8,570), emerald-green Salmson coupe, which he likes to try out at 100 miles an hour. For the French it means that Sidney is American jazz in the flesh. Explained one French jazz buff: "A lot of jazz musicians are known to the French, but it's Sidney who's known to the average person. He plays jazz like a gypsy...
...British said they would strike again, and they did-in a small daylight raid on a truck factory at Poissy, ten miles from Paris. Plenty of other targets in the Paris factory belt waited their turn. The Farman and Salmson works had been hit-but the Citroën. Peugeot, Delahaye and Hispano-Suiza works, also humming away on war materials for Germany, had not. Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making...
...France's late 40-hour week employed 30,000 workers. Now it clanged away, making tanks, engines, planes and trucks for the Germans-the Russians had found some Renault-built tanks abandoned by the Nazis on the Eastern Front. At Billancourt, also, were the smaller Farman and Salmson works; they, too, made war materials for the Nazis...
...days the "folded arms" strikes had spread to Fiat (automobiles), Citroen (automobiles), Farman (airplanes), De-woitine (airplanes) Rosengart (automobiles), Licorne (automobiles), Salmson (automobiles, airplane engines), Goodrich (tires), Alsthom (electrical equipment), Panhard (automobiles) and the Paris building trades workers...
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