Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba. On his recent visit to Washington Bourguiba reportedly urged President Eisenhower to persuade France to give Algeria complete independence. In return, Arab leaders in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco would form a Maghreb federation with some kind of link with France. Spain, because of its residual interest in Spanish Morocco, would also be invited to join the grouping, and so would Libya...
...Spanish, economy could not look brighter," bragged Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco in his annual New Year's message last week. "Many apparently great nations envy us." There was, he conceded, a crisis just at the moment, but that was merely the "natural" result of economic expansion and would soon be straightened...
Actually, life in Franco's Spain is getting tougher and tougher. Heavy frosts last February destroyed nearly half the nation's citrus crop, at an estimated loss of at least $80 million in foreign exchange. Early last spring, the discontent of Spanish workers, many of whom take two jobs and work 14 hours a day to eke out a living, exploded in a series of illegal strikes. Reluctantly, Franco granted wage raises that averaged about 40%, and paid for them by the dangerous expedient of printing extra paper money...
...Pablo Casals, turned 80, looked and talked closer to 40. Spaniard Casals, for the past 17 years a self-exiled dweller in France, explained why he will go on declining invitations to visit the U.S.: "I have a great affection for the U.S., but as a refugee from Franco Spain, I cannot condone America's support of a dictator who sided with America's enemies, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco's power would surely collapse today without American help." The secret of Casals' youthfulness? "The man who works and is never bored is never...
...barely 6½& of the world's population, the U.S. produced-and rapidly consumed-60% of the world's goods. The U.S. spent more on highways alone than the entire value of Norway's economy; its new homes were worth more than the entire economy of Spain, its new cars more than the combined economies of Mexico, Denmark and Australia. Surveying their bounty, Americans could say with President Thomas Coulter of Chicago's Association of Commerce and Industry: "We've never had it so good...