Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production dropped to 25% below the 1930 level; one out of three dinky French freight cars was idle; sales of manufactured goods abroad had halved; industrialists said they saw no chance for profits under Popular Front reforms. Worst of all, the savings of millions of frugal Frenchmen were endangered by an unchecked flight of gold. Drastic measures, sure to be unpopular, were necessary if France was to be saved...
...excess of savings deposits over withdrawals was $113,446,500; and, most important, France's gold supply had mounted from 55,808,000,000 to 87,266,000,000 francs. And last week when the Government went into the market for a six-billion franc defense loan, Frenchmen expressed their confidence in the nation's finances by oversubscribing it in a few hours, breaking all French records for an issue of that size...
Medical collaboration having fared better than other forms of international amity, Germans and Frenchmen, Britons and Italians, hobnobbed in great goodwill at their tenth Congress. Jittery Poland's, Estonia's and Yugoslavia's doctors at the last moment were ordered to stay home. But so many bigwigs were allowed to attend that the delegates told each other there could be no war while they were away from their armies. In beribboned and bemedaled uniforms, they made the staid lobby of the Willard Hotel gay. They also made excellent propaganda for peace. To experts' previews...
...gold for American depositories, fire struck France's third largest ship again. Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used for military purposes if and when war comes to Europe...
...Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll U. S. cinema...