Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French plan to organize the Sultan's deposition by a process known as "spontaneous evaporation." This will consist of looking into the throne room and discovering that the Sultan is no longer there, at which point Faure's regency council will rush in to fill the void...
...invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill out-forms identical with those issued to visitors. When the queasy bureaucrats finished struggling with their own gobbledygook, the plane touched down. A Health Department employee promptly sealed its doors and sprayed the interior with a choking insecticide...
...last the coughing civil servants were released from the plane to find themselves facing a battery of stern and intractable officials at the airport. The crimes they had apparently committed were many. Some had failed to fill in their entry forms correctly. A police inspector was found to be carrying an undeclared pistol. A representative of the Reserve Bank was accused of smuggling in undeclared dollars. The Health Department man was found to be short one vaccination and was forced to take his shot then and there. Feeling duly humbled, the men who write New Zealand's entry rules...
...Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 60, who retired last month as Chief of Naval Operations, was elected a director of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Admiral J. H. Towers (TIME...
...from the comparable period of last year, and Illinois Central lifted its net a thumping 54% to $14 million. With 1956 auto production just getting under way and heavy construction still booming, steelmakers, already at 91.4% of capacity, wondered how they could fill their fall orders. The magazine Iron Age said that the demand for steel would sustain operations at 100% of capacity if only the steelmakers could reach that goal...