Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week. Essentially, the plan was based on the U.S. intention to work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany if the commission makes progress toward unification, and 3) the possibility of adding
...economic aid-are pressing U.S. products hard in markets all around the world. While exports of U.S. manufactured goods were dropping 10% last year, Italian trade with Venezuela rose 34%, with Egypt 81%, with Indonesia 142%. Any customers the Italians overlooked were fair game for the busy West Germans. Not long ago U.S. manufacturers worried about German bicycles and other consumer goods. Today the Germans are supplying major elements of a refinery in Argentina, providing the pipes for a Venezuelan irrigation project, and installing a pipeline in Chile...
...Some German businessmen were openly cool to U.S. investment. "American stock purchases overseas," said Georg Bruns, manager of the Frankfurt stock exchange, "often have a speculative character. We need sound, long-term support from .our shareholders. Also, Germany must export capital to rid itself of high currency reserves. There are already not enough shares to meet demand...
...revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With...
This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...