Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million U.S. workers-nine out of every ten-1959's first pay envelope was a little slimmer than 1959's last one. Reason: the social security nibble, which started out at 1% of the first $3,000 of pay back in 1937, increased at year's beginning from 2½% of the first $4,200 of pay to 2¼% of the first $4,800 (up $25.50 to $120 a year for a worker who makes $4,800 a year or more). But when 1959's first social security checks go out in the mail, they...
France's heavy budget was based on an unhappy recognition that the costly war in Algeria would go on. It also reflected an awareness of France's deepening recession-83% of France's manufacturers have cut back production in recent months. De Gaulle reckoned that France must increase its investment in housing and industry in 1959, and must continue the economic development of Algeria. Yet if De Gaulle's 17.5% devaluation of the franc (TIME, Jan. 5) is to achieve its purpose of making French products internationally competitive, France cannot afford another round of inflation...
...present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried him on his prospects, Anthropologist Soustelle gloomily quipped: "Perhaps I will go back to Mexico and my Aztecs...
When Germany attacked Russia in 1941, nimble Joanovici became a Rumanian again by the simple process of buying back his papers from a Vichy French passport official. Later he declared himself a stateless person. Soon the Nazis were knocking at his door, not to arrest him, but to beg humbly for his help. Germany was short of scrap, and Joanovici could supply...
Aryan Businessman. The Nazis let him out again and, back in his old job, Joseph Joanovici became "a state within a state." His payroll included Vichy officials, Gestapo agents, profiteers, speculators, fences, gangsters. He once explained the niceties of his profession: "I had lunch with the Vichy official whose job it was to see that all businesses were run by Aryans. He noticed I spoke with an accent and asked me where I was born. I told him I would like to give him money regularly, as a contribution to the Red Cross...