Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week paid vacation for 65% of the work force; and everywhere, liberal retirement pay. Real wages are also increasing fast: last year in France they rose 8%, in Italy 15%, in Germany 6.5%, in Britain 4.2%.. This strategy has already contributed hugely to inflation in France, Italy and the Benelux nations, and rouses fears that a demoralizing new spiral may halt Britain's prosperity...
...Southeast Asia, continued around the world. Later that year he was rushed to Berlin when The Wall went up. In 1962 he barnstormed through the Middle East, struck up his famous friendship with Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver. So far this year Johnson has been in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries...
...Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...
Leading the gain will be Italy (5.5%) and France (4.5%); lagging will be West Germany (3%) and the Benelux countries (3.5%). Eurocrats blamed last winter's brutal weather for a slowdown early in the year but forecast a 6% jump in industrial production during 1963's fourth quarter...
...Europoort, Tidewater Oil is moving in, and Britain's big Imperial Chemical Industries has already started a petrochemical complex. The port is building a new grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed for a $25 million Benelux Tunnel under the Maas River to make access to the outer port easier; Rotterdammers are also building a subway in the soggy soil by dredging a canal down their main street, lowering concrete tubes into it, then pumping the tubes out; eventually they will be covered with earth...