Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spilled Milk." The urgent need for repair was evident all along to both the U.S. and Britain; as soon as Harold Macmillan succeeded broken Anthony Eden as Prime Minister, a Big Two meeting was inevitable. Ike himself suggested Bermuda as the place, feeling that it might help soothe the British hurt feelings to hold the conference in British territory...
...disagreement on particular issues. At the conference's first formal session, Macmillan started off by saying that the recent rupture between the two nations was a matter to be mentioned and then firmly set aside; Eisenhower said that the U.S. had no desire to talk about "spilled milk...
They pledged there would be no recriminations over spilt milk on either side and Eisenhower called British-American friendship the core of any free world alliance...
...French Premier Guy Mollet as he descended from a plane at Orly Field last week were about his U.S. visit. Then French newsmen got down to what they regarded as more important: What would the Premier do about the bill in the National Assembly to raise the price of milk half a cent a quart? To an aide Mollet testily commented: "How can I return from high policy talks with Eisenhower and ask for a vote of confidence on milk...
There was only one characteristically French way to stave off such a humiliating anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...