Word: dunkirk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans are scurrying to catch up with other European steelmen; sea side plants already account for nearly 20% of the Common Market's steel production. France's Usinor opened a 1,500,000-ton mill at Dunkirk in 1963, and a consortium of Belgian and Luxembourg firms is busy building a 1,500,000-ton plant on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. Even Portugal has put up an efficient small works on the water at Seixal...
...credit concessions to exporters, reorganization of the dock industry and, in some cases, like steel, immediate nationalization. To eliminate the deficit, Lord Cromer warned last week, Britain must revitalize her entire economy. The three billion dollar rescue that saved the pound in November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presages swift victory...
...Time for a Munich." There were, of course, strong opposing voices. To call for negotiations now, said Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, would be like urging that "Churchill enter into negotiations with the Germans at the time of Dunkirk or that President Truman enter into negotiations with the Communists when we stood with our backs to the sea in the Pusan perimeter." Said Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee: "This is no time for another Munich. If Red China is prepared to expand its sphere of influence and territory in Southeast Asia, we might as well find out now, before...
...reckoning is at hand, Lord Cromer told a gathering of Scottish bankers in Edinburgh. The $3 billion international rescue that saved the Brit ish pound last November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presaged swift victory in 1940." If the government is to prevent hardship for every British family, he said, it must quickly and decisively put its house in order by boosting productivity and cutting back on its spending schemes. Said he: "I only hope we face up to this need whilst there is still time...
...family albums, grainy vintage newsreels, and sparkling new color footage. Producer Jack Le Vien (The Black Fox) shows the great events in which Churchill played so commanding a role, from his tour of duty as a young officer in India to the disastrous Dardanelles campaign of 1915, to Hitler, Dunkirk and the blitz on the road to victory in war and ultimate peaceful retirement...