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...reputation as a hustling textile salesman, first working for Italy's Cascagni Seta mills, where, at 23, he was manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash, had all but collapsed...
...recorded spiels were the idea of Marcel LeGrand, director-general of the Societé Bénédictine of Fécamp, manufacturers of Benedictine liqueur. He installed a similar system in his distillery last year for the benefit of tourists, later tried it in the company's Fécamp museum. Some of the Galerie Royale's guides were pretty sad about the future-if this was it. Said one oldtimer: "At first, it was awful listening to an invisible man do my job. But you can't stand in the way of progress...
Last winter T.W.A. signed a contract with the Italian Government under which a new company, Linee Aeree-Italiane Società Perazioni was to get an exclusive franchise to fly internal air routes: T.W.A. was to get a 40% interest in L.A.I. The British demanded that T.W.A. share its interest with the Government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. T.W.A. President Jack Frye refused, saying that British and American equipment could not be profitably operated together...
...Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts jurymen ponderously examined a group of paintings secretly padded with two genuine masterpieces-a Whistler and a Mary Cassatt. "Not bad, not bad at all," the jurymen agreed...
...Manhattan, officers of the Societé Culinaire Philanthropique, an association of chefs, announced that in view of the world situation, the exhibits at the year's annual salon of culinary art would not include food...