Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Nazi power crumbling, angry Frenchmen meted out Tommy-gun justice to suspected collaborators. France never announced how many people were killed in those bloody days. This month, the government produced the score: 10,522 Frenchmen were killed in "irregular executions"; only 846 collaborators were executed by the lawful courts...
...Progressive" and "practical" got the most foreign votes as the outstanding U.S. characteristics. But 52% of the English called Americans "conceited" and 46% of Frenchmen called them "domineering." Only 34% of Frenchmen (who have received $2.5 billion in U.S. postwar aid) called the U.S. "generous." The Russians got it all-round for being "cruel," "backward" and "domineering," and only a spot of praise as "hard-working...
...pact with the devil." Pinay fought back. From his notes in a big cardboard folder he drew some startling statistics. Example: French peasants and the petit bourgeois have hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer dare invest their money for fear of being found out. By restoring confidence in the franc, and by waiving prosecution of past tax offenders...
...Frenchmen like Pinay because he boldly attacked the problem that troubled them most: high retail prices. In his four weeks in office, butter prices had fallen from 880 to 760 francs per kilo; milk and cheese were down 15%. Pinay had worked no miracles (meat prices are still rising). As a right-wing businessman, he had merely consulted the men he knows best: France's business leaders. He persuaded department-store owners to back a price reduction campaign. He called it "Save the Franc." Some cynical shoppers thought the price cuts were more apparent than real; still, they were...
...travelogue stuffed with melodrama. And the show gains freshness because it is lavishly peopled with European actors-usually Swedes-in the supporting roles. "Swedes learn English in grade school and speak it very well," explains Reynolds. "Their accent is so slight that I can make them be Russians or Frenchmen or whatever I want...