Word: franc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France was poor and the times were bad, but Catherine de Medici and her son King Henry III were throwing a royal wingding, and they were not a pair to pinch a franc. Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination of painting, music and dancing that is now rated as the first true ballet ever performed. The show began about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, 1581 in the Grand Salle of the Hôtel du Petit Bourbon in Paris, and lasted until 3:30 in the morning...
Paris Left-wing Franc-Tireur: How different are matters over here. What a different picture when we look at our backward employers, our divided workers, our outmoded routines, our old slogans which no longer convince anybody, and when we witness this forward movement in America, marked by technical progress and social justice...
...galloping inflation that has sent living costs soaring since war's end finally seems hobbled. Prices have held steady despite a wage hike of nearly 6% in the past year. The long-queasy franc has strengthened, and the black-market rate of 368 to the dollar is closer to the official rate of 350 than it has been for years...
...Congo is King Baudouin's richest, widest realm. It is eighty times the size of the mother country, and half again as populous. Booming Congo exports provide the dollars and pounds that make the Belgian franc one of the world's hardest currencies. Belgians drink Congo coffee, wear shirts made of Congo cotton, wash them with soap made from Congo palm kernels. Without the mighty Congo, little Belgium might go broke; with it, a nation of 9,000,000 still counts as a world empire...
Even in his restaurant, René has never been far from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race" at Montlhery. When Chicago Industrialist S. H. ("Wacky") Arnolt decided to enter three of his Arnolt-Bristol sports cars in this year's Grand Prix at Sebring, it was not surprising that he turned to René Dreyfus when he needed a team captain. And it was not surprising...