Word: franc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyers in the Bush. Long before Joe Hirshhorn got interested in the Blind River area, geologists knew that there was radioactivity there. But most thought it came from thorium, because the outcrops yielded little uranium ore. Geologist Franc R. Joubin, who was working as a private consultant in the area, thought differently; he believed that oxidation of the outcrops had leached away their uranium content, but that underneath there lay a treasure trove of uranium ore. Joubin told Joe Hirshhorn his theory, and Hirshhorn agreed, with associates, to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples...
...death. We must rise and we must act, and not in the traditional manner. They have their laws, but their laws are illegal. Our real place is at the head of the country." He ended with an appeal to join his crusade. "Make the sacrifice of a thousand-franc bill," cried Pierre Poujade. "Think of your responsibilities!" Million-Dollar Take. So far, some 400,000 Frenchmen in nearly every section of France have made the sacrifice, providing Poujade with a prospective treasury this year of some 400 million francs or more than $1 million. In return, Poujade provides tax-evasion...
...officials and party leaders trooped to the gloomy Reuilly barracks to testify in the espionage investigation that began last month with the arrest of a Red-hunting cop named Jean Dides. The witnesses ranged from ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud and Georges Bidault to dumpy ex-Pastry Cook Jacques Duclos, France's No. 2 Communist, who long has been running the party in the absence of ailing Maurice Thorez. In prison, nimble, wire-haired André Baranés (TIME, Oct. 11) methodically set to work fuzzing up his story of how he delivered records of France's most...
...Gaullist L'Aurore: "This confidence vote had nothing to do with 'confidence.' " Said the right-wing independent Le Figaro: "The parties did not want to choke Laniel to death, they merely wanted to make it difficult for him to continue breathing." The left-wing Socialist Franc-Tireur: "By scientifically doctoring its votes, the Chamber has . . . condemned itself even more severely than it condemned the government...
...Honegger is getting pretty tired of the world. His music has often been brilliant and provocative, e.g., in his oratorio King David, at other times about as profound as movie sound tracks, of which he has written dozens. This month, at 62, Honegger sounded off to Paris' Franc-Tireur on tiis favorite subject. Excerpts...