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Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...company is held by Bush Terminal. Inc. For the smaller exporter Bush Service Corp. will do, roughly, what is done for companies like International Harvester, General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey by their own overseas selling and distributing organizations. Bush Service will assume full responsibility for shipments from the point of origin to the point of distribution, handling all repacking, marking, routing, and import requirements that arise en route. It will "provide adequate and reliable information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able...
...Young greenhouses are spread over 55 acres. Inside these greenhouses, where the native climate of each species of orchid is reproduced, are some 500,000 orchid plants, ranging from seedlings in little glass tubes to blooming flowers, with stems inside specially corked bottles of water, ready for shipment. Daily output of the Young Nurseries averages between 1,000 and 3,000 flowers, reaches such heights as 11,000 on Easter Sunday...
Included in the shipment were scores of other French classics among which were books by Beaumarchais, St. Pierre, Boileau, Corneille, Diderot, La Fontainc. Rochefoucault, Moliere, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Racine, Vegnry, Voltaire, and many others which are used in the study of French Literature at Harvard. Of the ten censored works at least two are known to be read in French courses here. Rabelais' stories are studied in courses of sixteenth century French Literature while extracts from Rousseau's "Confessions" are also used...
Significant was the decision not only for the U. S. Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...