Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, Pinay is by common consent De Gaulle's most effective minister. Executing plans drawn up by Economic Braintruster Jacques Rueff, he carried through-without the usual rapid and disastrous rise in prices-the devaluation that gave the franc a strength it had not enjoyed in international markets since 1936. Introducing economic liberalism into France's closed economy, he made the franc convertible, hacked away at government subsidies, even persuaded French business to abandon its traditional protectionism and go wholeheartedly into the Common Market. Heartened by the knowledge that Pinay was at the helm, wealthy Frenchmen repatriated massive...
FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (2)*. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (3) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 7. Exodus, Uris (4) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 10. The Breaking Point, Du Maurier NONF1CTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 4. The Longest Day, Ryan (6) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (4) 6. The Status Seekers, Packard...