Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consider De Gaulle's austere Hotel Matignon office as a fortress to be stormed. Cutting words crept into the conversation of British officials over the alleged "obstinacy" of the general. The principal British complaint was economic. The British were furious about the Jan. 1 beginning of the European Common Market (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux), which leaves Britain outside...
After killing Britain's proposed Western European Free Trade Area (TIME, Dec. 1), the French had agreed to extend to outside nations the same 10% tariff cuts and 20% import quota increases promised to the members of the Common Market. This was as far as the protectionist-minded French intended to go. They would not grant to outsiders the Common Market provision to raise import quotas in each category to at least 3% of a nation's home production (which would allow a lot more German Volkswagens than British Hillman Minxes into France). To the British charge...
...Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety. He followed it with the more popular Man's Search for Himself, published in 1953. Already applying existential principles in his practice, he then learned what European analysts were doing, began working on Existence. Meanwhile, the confluence of German and Swiss Daseinsanalyse with a more literally existential school developed in Spain, France and Vienna led to the omnibus Barcelona Congress...
...Gothic cathedral town of Malines, Belgium, Du Pont was preparing last week to build its first plant on the European Continent. Nearby, Procter & Gamble was operating a recently completed $2,000,000 plant. A few miles down the road, Union Carbide was moving into a polyethylene plant, and Ford and General Motors were operating assembly lines. In The Netherlands, B. F. Goodrich was constructing a synthetic-rubber factory at Arnhem, and Chrysler was rolling out Simcas from its recently acquired assembly line at Rotterdam. Like many other U.S. companies, they have found Belgium and The Netherlands the best places...
...other hand, the Dutch trumpet low wages (industrial average: 57? per hour), which are on a par with those in Italy, almost 20% below wages in Germany, more than 25% below rates in Belgium, France, Britain. But Belgium has a ready rebuttal: higher productivity. Reports the Organization for European Economic Co-Operation: "The Netherlands started from a lower base and has improved productivity more, but it has still not caught up to Belgium...