Word: vintners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Quo Tai-chi of China, who (like all the U.N. delegates' wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...
Like Omar Khayyam's vintner, the U.S. is asking itself: what can it buy abroad one half so precious as the stuff it has to sell? The particular stuff the U.S. wants to sell is some $6 billion worth of surplus war goods overseas. The countries that could use it can't pay for it; the best they have to offer is credit...
...maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...
...body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda lay in state in the Hall of Honor of Santiago's Congress Building. From all over Chile special trains disgorged mourners for the President. More than 200,000 crossed themselves as they filed sadly past the remains of the wealthy lawyer and vintner who, as the Americas' first and only Popular Front President, had been the champion of Chile's swarming poor...