Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were being hurt. The U.S. movie industry fought for and got an international film standard based on U.S. standards (with the sound track on the left edge of the film as it goes through a projector) only after the Germans ate into its foreign markets and threatened to establish German standards with the sound track on the other side. Result: U.S. movie companies can distribute worldwide, get 50% of their income from abroad...
...ingrained distrust of strong government, the general hoped to impose a President who could not only appoint Premiers without parliamentary approval but would also be empowered to dissolve Parliament at will. To balance still more the power of the popularly elected National Assembly, De Gaulle would like to establish a strong Senate whose members would include representatives of France's local governments and overseas territories, plus spokesmen for such economic and social groupings as organized labor, agriculture, management and the intellectuals...
...their earnest efforts to hold on to Kenya-and to establish some sort of permanent peace between the races-the British have run into two kinds of obstacles. Once it was the Mau Mau terrorists; now it is a new kind of impatient black nationalism led by an aggressive 27-year-old labor leader named Tom Mboya. who wants nothing less than to set up in Kenya the same sort of black republic that Kwame Nkrumah runs in Ghana...
Both Brazil and Colombia want the U.S. either to set minimum prices for coffee and establish import quotas for each coffee-growing nation or begin stockpiling. The U.S. is not yet ready to go that far. It is willing to grant stopgap aid, e.g., a $103 million loan to Colombia a fortnight ago. And it is willing to work jointly on plans for more orderly marketing. "The U.S. finally has admitted that the problem is mutual," said one Latin American ambassador in Washington last week. "That's quite a change...
...organization seeking to control the United States today that is more subversive to our basic American democratic way of life than all the Communist hordes ... It is the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, [which] seeks to discredit and destroy other religious groups in the United States . . . and to establish fascism in America...