Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California." The Sahara has captured the imagination of all France. At least a million French families have invested in Saharan oil stocks, and every month thousands of young Frenchmen apply for jobs in the Sahara fields. French newspapers refer to the Sahara as "our California," and the man most responsible for the Sahara agrees. Says France's Minister Delegate Jacques Soustelle: "This desert should come to mean to France what the Far West meant at a certain period to the American states on the Atlantic coast...
...marketplace of Locronan, a tiny (pop. 1,000) village in Brittany, 5,000 Frenchmen got set for a hike. Most were Bretons or of Breton origin, and many had come from far-off towns and lands; all had waited six years for the day. The occasion: the Tromenie, Brittany's sexennial pilgrimage, whose history, like Locronan's, dates back to the 5th or 6th century...
...against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not what they've got"), even believes that it is the cure for such social ills as alcoholism. ("Mendes-France would have cut out a lot more drinking had he built homes instead of trying to persuade Frenchmen to drink milk.") Winston has plenty of housetops to preach from. Outside Paris he put up 250 U.S.-style, moderately-priced houses and apartments to show off American mass-production building methods, sold them so fast that he plans hundreds more. In Spain's new steelmaking town of Aviles...
Under the old system, business transactions and-government appropriations were made in astronomical figures (current French budget in old francs: 6,189,000,000,000). But the changeover poses new problems. Despite plenty of warnings, some Frenchmen are sure to write checks after July 15, the changeover day, without marking N.F. (New Francs) in front of the figures. Shopkeepers may try to raise prices under the guise of rounding off the price of an article that cost 450 old francs to a simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring...
...Frenchmen were showing a lively curiosity about their leader's health but no alarm (the Elysée Palace issues no bulletins on the President's fitness). He is a man under strain, a man who deliberately isolates himself, unhesitantly separating himself from his supporters as from his enemies. In foreign affairs he has been determined to demand a greater say for France in Western councils. If often annoyed, Washington (like France) believes that a difficult De Gaulle is preferable to a France with no De Gaulle...