Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most forward-looking contribution to the U.S. was his acceptance of labor-saving machinery for an industry that was in decline. In the teeth of competition from natural gas and oil, Lewis wrote the contracts to help the coal owners, came out unequivocally for automation and higher productivity even though that meant redeployment of many of his miners and a faster decline of his mighty U.M.W. from 600,000 after World War II to 430,000 today...
...length, Teviston voted to create the water district, even though the assessed valuation on their land was so low that a bond issue seemed out of the question. Still, Teviston hired a lawyer, and the people emptied their pockets, begged loans from banks, floated a tiny ($7,800) bond issue. Even after the deep well was dug, the hard-pressed laborers had to dig down for more money to help pay for equipment and water lines. A few bluntly refused: "I'll believe it when I see the water," grumbled...
Down with Egoism! To French dismay, every other NATO member lined up behind the U.S. in defense of integration. Even though De Gaulle has assiduously courted the West Germans, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss pointedly condemned "special egoistic interests within NATO." And many of the French themselves made it plain that they were out of sympathy with De Gaulle's position...
...Even when the old bitterness subsided after World War I, France's traditional anticlericalism-a strain that runs from Voltaire to Sartre-remained just below the surface. In 1945, when De Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic...
...Milk. In such predominantly Catholic regions as Normandy, Brittany and La Vendée, children who attend public schools and their parents are occasionally denied the sacraments. In one Vendée town the curé himself told his congregation: "You have a good laïque teacher, but even if she were a saint, you should not send your children to her." The teacher soon found that children would turn from her in the street, and that farmers refused to sell her butter and milk. In cities the tables are often turned: a child returning from confession finds himself...