Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obsolete and uneconomic. As in the U.S.'s depressed Harlan County, Ky. (TIME, Feb. 23), coal seams are ever deeper and narrower, and the extraction cost is far above that of the big, modernized mines in the German Ruhr. Last year's recession created a glut in European coal-the surplus now stands at 26 million tons, with 7,000,000 in Belgium alone. The formation of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community-creating a common market in these products in France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-finally forced the government...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Home from four years as U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany, Dr. James B. Conant has some shrewd observations on what is different and what ought to be different between the U.S. and European school systems...
Miss Walter, the European title-holder was second, followed by a surprising college freshman from Temple City, Calif., Barbara Roles...
...political string. To pay for Communist arms and aid, Egypt's Nasser has mortgaged much of his cotton crop for years ahead. By reselling this cotton at cut prices to Western textile manufacturers (including West Germans), the Communists have driven Egyptian cotton exporters out of much of the European market, have thus deprived Egypt of a major source of foreign exchange and reduced her ability to import Western goods. In the first half of 1958, Soviet-bloc exports to Egypt were more than 2½ times West Germany...
...there is oil in the North, Minister Hamilton sees a vision of atomic-powered submarine tankers loading up from pipelines linking island interiors to the coast, then hauling their cargo under the ice to European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North...