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...Vermouth is the Coca-Cola of the Argentines, who consume more vermouth each year than the entire U. S. But U. S. consumption has been going up, last year reached an all-time high of 1,650,000 gallons-90% imported from France and Italy...
Married. Maria-Christina-Teresa-Alexandra-Guadelupe-Maria de la ConcepciÓn Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 28, Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of ex-King Alfonso; and Count Enrico Marone, wealthy (Cinzano vermouth) Italian: in Rome...
...wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost in trade with Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and subsequent victims...
...providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...
...Alagi, 12-litre hydroplane owned and driven by Italian Count Theo Rossi (vermouth) : the Gold Cup, No. 1 U. S. motorboat trophy; averaging 64 m.p.h. over a 90-mile course (three ten-lap heats); on the Detroit River, off Detroit...