Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...making its choice, West Germany pushed French Premier Laniel and his government to a point where France could not much longer delay its choice. With West Germany's strength badly needed in the cold-war defense line, France had to choose the European Army or risk some blunter solution that puts Germans back into their own feldgrau uniforms, with their own high command. Jauntily expectant that a decision is in the offing, Bonn's "Bureau Blank," the embryonic West German war ministry, last week placed an ad in the newspapers: "Wanted: 500 clerks, secretaries and interpreters ... Must...
French Premier Joseph Laniel's first try at national economizing was a cut in the government's huge pension payments. Result: a chain explosion of crippling strikes that threw him into retreat. Last week Laniel tried a couple of other, less risky approaches-a fiat lowering prices and a crackdown on France's multitude of tax evaders...
...baisse (the lowering), shopkeepers in central Paris hung a banner reading "Rue de la Baisse" across the Rue Montorgueil, and merchants and manufacturers with high inventories cheered. But plain people rubbed their chins and doubted that it would last any longer than other baisses decreed by some of Laniel's predecessors...
...these troubles scarcely ruffled Chanel No. 5's No. 1 man. Along with other Paris perfumers last month, he agreed to underwrite the Grasse industry by paying "fair prices" for the essential oils. Keeping prices up is a habit in the industry. When the Laniel government issued a decree forbidding price-fixing last month, the Syndicat de la Parfumerie intervened with the authorities and got themselves exempted...
This week, trying to regain ground and to stall off further trouble, the Laniel government reached an agreement with Paris butchers for a 10% price reduction on steaks and cheaper cuts of meat. By means of similar deals with cartel trade associations, the government hopes to get 5% to 10% price reductions on other food, household goods, linen and clothes...