Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARRY ME, MARRY ME. Courtship, love and marriage in a community of French Jews are the subjects of this wistful film directed by Claude Berri...
...Sweden, have recently raised bank interest rates (some of them several times) in an effort to restrain borrowing. Almost everywhere in Europe, factories are humming at or near their capacity, but consumers are spending money so fast that some firms cannot fully meet the demand for their products. French automakers, for example, are making many domestic buyers wait for delivery of new cars because they are giving priority to export orders...
...Willots are driven by two ambitions. One is to build a modern Europe-wide textile empire out of the fragmented French industry, which suffers from creaking methods, ancient machinery and nepotism. The other ambition is more personal: to sweep out the grandes families of northern France who have dominated French textiles for many decades and look down their noses at such commoners as the Willots, who did not get beyond trade school. "They are out to conserve," explain the Willots. "We are out to conquer...
First to Go. Soon Bernard and his brothers realized that many ill-managed French textile firms needed just a little push to fall into their hands. Openly or covertly, they managed to get the balance sheets of failing companies, then they made their...
...Willots have invested little in new equipment. Instead, they have begun spreading into Africa in joint ventures with both the French and local governments. They have set up cotton mills and spinning plants in Bangui (Central African Republic) and Niamey (Niger), and they are negotiating about a third in Bamako (Mali...