Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still 100% Americans in the crowd, there were some, groaned the weekly Samedi-Soir in feigned unhappiness, "who asked for catsup with the canard presse...
...Laurent is Prime Minister of one of the world's richest nations. Canada (pop. 13,000,000) leads the world in production of newsprint, nickel and asbestos; stands second in wheat exports, aluminum and zinc; third in copper, gold & silver mining. The hemisphere's richest uranium mine is in the Canadian North. The vast iron-ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec can replace the dwindling U.S. Mesabi range as the mainstay of U.S. steelmaking. New oilfields in Alberta are already compared to the fabulous wells of west Texas...
Flair's Fleur, 39, who was a topflight advertising executive before she became the third wife of Publisher Cowles three years ago, will keep on doubling in brass as an associate editor of the picture magazine Look (circ. 3,075,000) and the three-month-old, capsule-sized newsweekly Quick, now up to 400,000, according to Mike Cowles...
...Stage. Flanked on either side by huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera summons a mob of supers that even Hollywood would admit was colossal. Ten horses, three elephants and a camel usually turn up onstage for Aida. In this season's Lohengrin, 700 performers (and Benito Mussolini's favorite white horse) were onstage at once...
...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...