Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Theme of the meeting was De Gaulle's vision of "an imposing confederation" of European states. There was some difference of emphasis. De Gaulle frankly hopes to establish a European community that could speak to the U.S. and Great Britain on equal terms. Adenauer recognizes that a purely European force can never amount to anything without U.S. support, wants no suggestion that any new European community would in any sense challenge or set itself at odds with the U.S. In Adenauer's eyes, the support of the U.S. is more important than any question of European prestige...
...other Japanese speaker, a rightwing socialist, urged with equal vehemence a fight against the "evils of capitalist exploitation of the workers" and against "the imperialism and violent dictatorships of the Communists." As a voice of the splinter Democratic Social Party, Koji Kemeda said that if European colonialists would get out of Asia, these nations would join the West in fighting a common enemy. Communism...
...table and appears to need to draw strength from his furniture to compensate for his own weakness. The two other Triumvirs--Antony and Octavius--enter and sit separated by the table, testing and feeling out each other's strength while often refusing to let their eyes meet. The wary, equal opposition of powers crushing weakness between them is enhanced by the diagonal placing of Enobarbus and two lesser officers on Antony's flank, and of Agrippa and two corresponding officers on Octavius...
...many causes of the French Revolution was the royal tax on brandy, which the victors hastened to repeal. Napoleon reinstated the tax in 1806, but he generously allowed any Frenchman with his own vineyard or orchard to distill tax-free up to ten liters of pure alcohol a year (equal to more than five gallons of 100-proof brandy). Since then, through two empires, two monarchies and five republics. French peasants have guarded their home stills like so many Kentucky moonshiners-and French politicians have cherished the bouilleurs de cru (distillers of the countryside) as zealously as U.S. politicians protect...
...when his father died in 1924, he set up Fairchild Aviation and turned it into a $6,000,000 business in a few years. Wall Street bankers, eying it as the nucleus for a "General Motors of the air," bought control. But the new management was not equal to the idea, and Fairchild got his company back in 1931. In 1936 he formed Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. in a share-for-share spin-off of Fairchild Aviation, turned the older company into Fairchild Camera. Fairchild hired J. Carlton Ward Jr., a vice president of United Aircraft, to head Fairchild Engine...