Word: synthol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...
...Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first pro-Nazi paper published in Paris...
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