Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, a record 102,820 cars were produced in February; Germany has 2,670,000 TV sets. One result: in only France and Italy are Communist parties still strong, and in neither do they have an effective say in the country's policy. The new six-nation Common Market promises revolutionary business opportunities for a market of 166 million people...
...Italians have oil ambitions of their own in the Arab Middle East, and would not think of jeopardizing them by getting involved in the Algerian question. They are happy to be buddies of France in NATO and the European Common Market, but Italians are not interested in undertaking any new adventures under the leadership of De Gaulle, preferring their U.S. connection more...
...unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...
...took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization, welcomed office boys, clerks, janitors, elevator operators, commercial-and advertising-department help...
FIVE years ahead of schedule, Quesada has set up radar-controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...