Word: frances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had brought on the disaster? One obvious cause: falling revenue and inflated costs had squeezed the profit out of the newspaper business. Ten years ago an eight-page paper sold for half a franc; today a four-pager costs 5 francs. And newsprint has gone from 2,500 francs a ton in 1939 ($62.76) to 35,000 ($114.63). Furthermore, the sins of the prewar press had been visited on the postwar press...
...sent a message to Maurice Thorez, saying the door remains wide open . . . Gaston Palewski [one of the general's chief aides] has stated he is ready to engage in conversations with Jacques Duclos' chambermaid . . ." Newsboys brandished their headlines like victorious flags. "No more cold war," cried Franc-Tireur, "the ice is broken...
Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin dissociated themselves from this dog-in-the-manger attitude-but they had both been angry when France (which shed its Socialist Premier for a Popular Republican) devalued its currency and permitted free trade in the franc. For one reason, it violated British Socialists' notions of a properly managed currency, and it hurt them worse to discover that it did not seem to hurt France...
This spring, the Belgian franc is (after the Swiss franc and the Portuguese escudo) Europe's hardest currency. Belgians had their worries, but they were better off than any other European people touched by the war. They had cake in the cupboard as well as hope in the future...
...metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection is not, and cannot be, "scientific" or "objective." It is made by human beings who bring to the job their...