Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices. The De Gaulle government used its emergency powers to pass a law making it a six-month jail offense for a wholesaler to discriminate against a retailer...
Oysters à Leclerc. Last September authorities in Grenoble (pop. 140,000) invited Benefactor Leclerc to open a store there to force down food prices, among the highest in France. Within a month the Leclerc store was doing a monthly business of $60,000, improving the diet of Grenoble families with such unaccustomed luxuries as imported fresh oysters at 42? a dozen, against the usual price of $1.43. Promptly, competitors encircled Leclerc's store with six new cut-price outlets, dropped his volume to $24,000 a month. Said Leclerc: "I did not come here to make money...
...three children got sick and Taylor was found to be a male "Typhoid Mary." Fired from his job as a batman at an infantry school, Taylor was forbidden to get near food intended for others, found his employment card marked in warning red, could not get a job. Last month he agreed to the standard operation that too many typhoid carriers refuse (though it does not always work)-removal of the gall bladder. Last week, pronounced typhoid free, Taylor downed a few pints of bitter at the corner local, said: "I feel as if I'd come...
Seventeen years later, incapacitated in hermitlike seclusion in Santa Barbara, four years before his death, he had just enough of the Sherman combativeness to fight and win a last battle for a $50-a-month Army pension that was his due for service in the War of 1898. Father Tom's entry on his pension application blank for nearest relative to be notified in case of death: his dead father, General William Tecumseh Sherman...
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The first edition of this vocal version of Wide Wide World hardly showed signs of budding, but the seed catalogue is impressive: Marian Anderson, Carol Haney, Art Carney...