Word: france
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics rose handsomely to the occasion. Said L'Aurore: "The Revanche of Ruth Page is one of extravagance based on good taste." Le Figaro: "A beautiful spectacle." Franc-Tireur: "The choreography is so ingenious and so expressive that none of the sharp turnings of fortune in the drama escape...
After two years of comparative stability, some European currencies were so shaky last week that devaluation talk again filled the air. The French franc was in the most trouble. Between midsummer and early October, the franc on the Paris black bourse had cheapened from 365 to 400 to the dollar (official rate: 350). Last week it plummeted...
Although inflation had been creeping up in France for some months, the headlong drop was unexpectedly sudden. Frenchmen evidently feared that France's rearmament effort will be a real strain on resources when it changes from a sizable figure (on paper) of 10% of the gross national product to an even greater figure of actual production. Consequently, they were turning their francs into gold, dollars and goods. They also knew that if sterling was devalued, the franc-contrary to experience in September 1949-would not be prevented this time from following it all the way down...
...Reader Tucker, thanks for squaring TIME'S million-franc circle...
...played her game," mused Novelist Bory for the Paris Franc-Tireur. "We will never know if she was admirable or criminal. . . For me, discovering my heroine far along a path down which I would never have wished to lead her, I cannot forget the limpidness, the coolness of that gaze which I saw as green...