Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From ECA's very beginning this proposition had been recognized-in theory. But in its first year, ECA, faced with an emergency, tended to the opposite direction. ECA sometimes stimulated fast production in a way that worked against future European economic unity and overall efficiency. Example: before the war, The Netherlands made heavy purchases from Belgium's big railway equipment industry. Today, the Belgians do not want to trade with The Netherlands because the Dutch can pay them only guilders, not now convertible to dollars. Like everyone else in Europe, the Belgians want dollars...
...third act, the Coal Trust was in a bad way, chiefly because Old Man Cowder had ignored business for the sake of a Polish countess (in reality no countess at all, but a lion tamer). Smokeless Coal, on the other hand, was flourishing, which evened things up-at least by the peculiar laws of Viennese musicals. Alice says: "Oh take me, love, take me away," and Viennese audiences (in 1907) went home, humming happily and concluding that Americans, while somewhat uncouth and acquisitive, probably had hearts of gold or, at least, coal...
...way to solve this problem," said the bartender, "would be for the King to abdicate and let his son Baudouin come back and be King. We hear young Baudouin isn't too bright, but who the hell wants a bright King? Only it looks as if it isn't going to happen because our King is a stubborn, bitter...
This discourse took place in "Le Pot," a little cafeé down by the canals in Brussels. Stroking his handlebar mustache, the bartender explained how the King became bitter. "There Leopold was-a young, handsome, dashing fellow anxious to make a splash in the world the way the Prince of Wales was doing over in England. What happened? His father was Albert, le roi chevalier, and his popularity put the boy completely in the shade. Then Leopold got married, and his bride turned out to be Astrid, one of the prettiest princesses you ever saw. She used to wheel...
...either side, the four-lane Paseo was flanked by tree-shaded islands that separated it from one-way lanes beyond. Students studied on the islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...