Word: frenchmens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard at Buckingham or St. James's Palace. Headwaiters were busy guiding visiting Frenchmen through the mysteries of an English menu -which in virtually every good London restaurant is printed in what is presumed to be French...
...Striptease and authentic Apaches, were down to a half of last year's business. Tickets for the Folies-Bèrgere could be had any night by just walking up to the box office. Hotels along the Riviera and the Basque coast were full, but full only of Frenchmen, themselves deserting Paris for the statutory three-week summer vacation (most factories and more than half the shops of Paris are closed in August, as all France takes off at once). Foreigners apparently had heard much of France's inflated prices, which made even more intolerable the reiterated demand...
...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...
...North Africa. Coupled with French and foreign investment in the bursting new oilfields, the flow of new capital into North Africa would ensure rapid industrialization, dispose of many of the troubles now besetting the impoverished Moslem population. So the Sahara riches at once became a reason why some Frenchmen want to hang onto Algeria at all costs, and others want to reach a compromise with the Arabs. Either way, without peace in Algeria, the Miracle of the Sahara could easily become a mirage...