Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps this Administration will succeed in firing a golf ball or tranquilizer pill into a satellite orbit by the time the Russians occupy the moon...
...Erhard got his chance. In June 1948, taking a decision that Erhard as Bizonal economic adviser, and director, had been advocating in memo after memo, Allied authorities suddenly revalued the West Germany currency (one new mark for every ten old ones). Convinced that Germany's recovery could not succeed with monetary reform alone, Erhard waited until one Sunday, when neither German colleagues nor military officials would be around to interfere, and announced on the radio that he had issued a formal decree ending all rationing and price controls at once. "Turn the people and the money loose," he cried...
...only four days after the elections. To the coal operators' pleas that their prices were still the lowest in Europe, Erhard roared: "You have made a volcano erupt. The administration is disturbed, the government is wounded." To unionists seeking concomitant wage rises and benefits, Erhard insisted he would succeed in keeping prices down: "If you look into it, you will find that your real income is now higher than that of any other European country." He pointed out that he hoped the gross national product would increase by 4% in the next few years. "This...
...work in tandem with balky Finance Minister Schäffer, who has incurred Adenauer's displeasure by holding back rearmament funds and thus delaying Adenauer's plans for stepping up German participation in NATO. Inevitably there is talk that Erhard might be in line to succeed as Chancellor, but his lack of an organized following within the party argues against that now. Says Erhard: "I don't approach that question, but it may one day approach...
Acheson warned further that America must be constantly on guard against Communist attempts to separate the United States and its European allies. If Russia could succeed in these attempts, he said, it would have won the battle of Europe without a single act of violence...