Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows exactly how sick the Spanish economy was; the regime had no way of compiling proper statistics and went out of its way to obscure the ones it had. But by 1959 all signs were bad. At least one-fourth of Spain's total imports, from whisky to machinery, were being smuggled in. The peseta was swinging wildly on the black market. Inflation was rising, production was actually falling...
...Western Europe. Hordes of Europeans with hard money in their pockets began pouring southward across the Pyrenees, lured by cheap prices, fiestas and bullfighting, by clear skies and endless beaches, by the ancient exotic attraction of a semi-Arab land that had dropped out of Europe with the Spanish Armada...
...gift horde in the mouth. It started plugging tourism for all it was worth. Spain's stern moral codes were relaxed to permit bikinis on beaches where 15 years before men had been arrested for not wearing tops. Resort hotels sprouted in bunches, and the government added nine Spanish castles and monasteries to its own network of hostels and inns. Iberia airlines bought 18 new jets and more than doubled its flights to make Spanish beaches easier to reach...
When they return to Spain, they come with new skills that can be put to good use in Spanish industries. More significant, they bring back new European ideas and values, which are helping to change Spanish life...
Even more impressive was last month's law, passed by a newly resilient Cortes (Parliament), giving Spanish workers the right to strike for higher pay. For nearly three decades, all strikes had been banned in Franco Spain...