Word: foodstuffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haughty Dismissal. On technical grounds, De Gaulle objected to Britain's imports of cheap foodstuff from the Commonwealth nations, to its restrictions on the export of capital, and to the role of the pound as a reserve currency. Adopting the rules of the Common Market, particularly the agricultural rules, could ruin Britain economically, said De Gaulle. He further objected to tying the fluctuating pound to the now solid currencies of the Common Market members. He insisted that the Market partners would invariably be caught up in the pound's fluctuations and haughtily dismissed as jeux d'esprit...
...barbarous bombing raids" on North Viet Nam. He also accused the U.S. of seeking to give West Germans an independent nuclear strike force. About the only subject that Gronouski is likely to find Gomulka & Co. agreeable on is food. The U.S. has sold more than $525 million in foodstuff to Poland since 1957; the Poles need more, and it will be up to Gronouski to negotiate the deal for new sales...
...body's most rugged and efficient organs; the original protein factory, it can actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream are as suspect as they are essential to French cuisine. The French even treat their dogs...
...give Britain the trading scope that its economic health requires. Organized in 1931, its trading charter called for the members to send their agricultural products and raw goods to Britain, buy manufactured goods in return. But during World War II, Britain revitalized its farms, reducing its need for imported foodstuff. After the war, as Commonwealth members began to industrialize, they threw up tariffs to protect their fledgling industries. Last year, even while Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker was pleading with Prime Minister Macmillan not to join the Common Market, Canada slapped a temporary 10% tariff on British autos...
Merger & Eclipse. Not rapidly enough, apparently. Castro's inefficient handling of the economy (in which Communist planners deserve their share of the blame) has plunged Cuba into chaos. Every foodstuff except rice and bread is in short supply; only a few of the 40 state-run factories can meet their production goals...