Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troles from 34,000 francs last year to 61,000 francs two weeks ago. From Hassi Messaoud and neighboring Algerian fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells: 2.6 billion bbl.) Frenchmen sitting in Cafés du Commerce all over France, hoping that this wealth might cure France's chronic foreign-trade deficit and boost capital investment in North Africa, called it the "Miracle of the Sahara...
None was more aware of this than the derrick monkeys, roughnecks, rock hounds and pebble puppies sweating in the 130° heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
...these words, more clearly than any French politician to date, France's President announced his nation's determination to cling to rebellious Algeria. It was phrased as a warning to Algerian nationalists, and France's allies abroad, but it was an appeal to dissident Frenchmen-including such leading intellectuals as Sorbonne Professor Raymond Aron (TIME, July 1), Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Europeanist Andre Philip-who have grown tired of the expensive hopelessness of the struggle in Algeria...
...Frenchmen still agree that the water cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...
...suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...