Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among countries where wine is considered less precious than cash are France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Hungary, Tunis and Greece...
Covertly these nations have been perfecting means to sell more wine for more cash. Four years ago they signed not a secret but a very discreet treaty which became operative last year, establishing The International Wine Bureau, in Paris. Although the treaty was duly deposited with the League of Nations, it has never been officially printed. But perhaps its quasi-secret text came last summer under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller III, undergraduate grandson of John D. Rockefeller I, who worked during vacation as an information clerk at the Secretariat of the League of Nations (TIME, July 16), peered...
Scarcely surprising, in view of the above circumstances, was the issuance last "week by Ivy Lee & Associates (spokesoffice for the House of Rockefeller) of an exposé and privately made translation of the treaty establishing The International Wine Bureau. "Such a plan," declared Ivy Lee & Associates, "constitutes in effect an anti-prohibition campaign, at least in so far as the sale of wine is concerned...
...Pasteur's original Institute in Paris. The first was at Saigon. The Tunis vintners knew of Pasteur's work only that he was able to keep beer from spoiling and silkworms from dying. They demanded that the French Government, their overlord, send them men to prevent their wine turning sour. The French established the Tunis Pasteur Institute (1893), where the scientists quickly learned what spoiled Tunis wine. Then they turned, as Pasteur had turned, to discovering the causes, cures and preventions of human and animal diseases...
...taking of wine with a meal increases the desire for food and improves the nutrition. The wine itself requires no further digestion and is almost the only food product which will be absorbed from the stomach itself without further preparation or delay in its reaching the tissues. Alcohol is not a direct stimulant but acts directly as an antidote to the chronic poisoning of the heart from overindulgence in coffee and tobacco...