Word: francos
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Campbell not only dominates the U.S. soup market, canned and frozen, but is the nation's largest producer of canned spaghetti (Franco-American), blended vegetable juice (V-8), frozen meat pies and TV dinners. Not content with selling 300 products in 110 nations, it has introduced 20 new items since August, is busy expanding seven of its 19 U.S. plants. Murphy, who earns a salary of $216,274 a year, also believes in personal diversification. He is a director of A.T. & T. and Merck, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and ;M.I.T. and co-chairman of the Greater...
...that France may yet torpedo them over the problem of common tariffs for European agriculture. That fear was heightened last week when Italy announced that it is reluctant to agree to standardize feed-grain prices before 1970 because that would inflate Italian food bills. Coming on top of the Franco-German fight over grain prices, Italy's stand made it even more unlikely that Europe can devise a common policy by mid-December, as the French demand on pain of walking out of the Kennedy Round...
Pompidou also charged that German participation in MLF would constitute a violation of the Franco-German Treaty of Cooperation signed by President de Gaulle and then-Chancellor Adenauer...
...operating in the same area from which Columbus sailed on his discovery voyage in 1492, demonstrated anew the extent of U.S. military cooperation with Spain. The U.S. has also completed a deal to deliver non-nuclear Hawk antiaircraft missiles and some 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 jet fighters to Franco. All of this is at the displeasure of NATO allies of the U.S., who do not want Franco's Spain in NATO, and who last week canceled their plans to send observers to Steel Pike...
Against the Grain. However, De Gaulle's prognostications are often more successful than his policies. Two years ago, in hope of establishing Franco-German dominance in European affairs, De Gaulle signed his treaty of cooperation with Bonn. In practice, the entente has been mostly verbal: the Germans have refused to cooperate in joint weapons production, want no part of De Gaulle's incipient nuclear force, and have further provoked le grand Charles by enthusiastically endorsing U.S. plans for the mixed-manned NATO surface fleet, MLF, which Paris ridicules as the force de farce...