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Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree, some of whose principal results are a steel mill whose products cost half again as much as German imports, an auto plant in Barcelona that builds ersatz Fiats for more than twice the cost of the real thing, thousands of luxury apartments still unrented, a $300 million annual trade deficit, an inflation that nearly doubled the amount of currency in circulation in five years (from 37 billion...
...before 1948, the year West Germany's struggling economy was remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then on motorcycles and cars, later on travel. Today 'Germans are back on a food buying spree, this time an Edel-fresswelle, or high-class-food wave. The best South American coffees...
...course in Unethical Practices so well that he commits assault and battery upon his father without fear of reprisal. But when the son threatens to beat up his mother as well, the senator, fed up with the results of his numbskullduggery, decides to go on a book-burning spree and ends up burning the entire school to the ground...
...long Easter recess is also a time for clearing the head of Washington's political vapors and finding out what is in the minds of the folks back home. In 1958 the Easter recess served a key purpose: in Washington, the temptation to fight recession with a spending spree had been almost overwhelming. But when the Congressmen got home at Easter, they discovered to their general astonishment that there was little sentiment for wild pump-priming. That discovery shaped much of the course of the 85th Congress, second session-and what Congressmen find out about such issues as Berlin...
...admirable subtlety, he plays his horror with brutal directness. Such scenes as the washing-house fight between Gervaise and her rival (where Miss Schell tears an earring out through Miss Delair's bleeding earlobe) and the bedroom where M. Perier has vomited the results of an all-day drinking spree--photographed in careful detail--are moments the viewer would like to, but cannot, forget...