TIME
January 29, 1945 12:00 AM GMT-4
In things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France.
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