Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...
Before he got deep into the smelling game, 42-year-old Bill Nassaur, Denver-born-&-bred son of a Syrian importer made egg beaters, clothes hangers, and lids for syrup and cream pitchers. His father and brother were experimenting with toiletries for men, and it was Bill who got the golden idea that packaging was all-important. He dressed the Nassaur elixirs in regal flagons of porcelain and richly colored glass, introduced them in 1937 through tony shops and department stores...
...same way, all retailers and many manufacturers were being squeezed by upsurging commodity prices. Corn syrup and starch were up 25%. Raw cotton prices continued to edge up. So did corn, at $2.27, only 9? below the 1927 record price. What would stop the commodity rises, short of OPA, in the face of the enormous demand for food...
...Soothing Syrup. In domestic policy the new Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over...
This double dose of soothing syrup is intended to lull certain suspicions which France has about its Communist Party. A Frenchman who considers joining it or following it asks himself whether it is a French party, an international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting...