Word: france
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there is SEXPOFF [Societe pour I'Exportation du Franc Franfais], a subversive movement to which all Amer icans in France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...
...London market and new speculation against ster ling. It was small satisfaction that the French, who have done their share of speculating against the pound in Brit ain's recent troubles, suddenly found themselves tarred by the same brush: ru mors of a devaluation of the franc plummeted France's coin of the realm 21 fractional points...
...Including Western Union Chairman Russell McFall, who has put the telegraph utility on an ambitious diversification course, both Chairman Fred Sullivan and President Franc Ricciardi of the fast-growing conglomerate, Walter Kidde & Co., and George Scharffenberger, freewheeling president, of New York-based City Investing...
...FRANC SHOR Associate Editor National Geographic Magazine Washington...
Smugglers' Delight. All that will help Europe revive its money markets. Their present weakness not only helps to raise the cost of borrowing throughout Europe but indirectly contributes to a host of other problems, from industrial inefficiency to the technology gap. In freeing gold and the franc, De Gaulle also undercut the deeply ingrained instinct that has made France a nation of hoarders and smugglers. Restrictions on money leaving the country had sharpened the Gallic impulse to spirit cash into secret Swiss bank accounts or bury gold in gardens and mattresses. Les hirondelles, the friendly black marketeers, could scarcely...