“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.” YearsFirstsMadeStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesProgressMonthsPeriodsPercentFirst TimeEuropeAreasTradeCentsLast YearAsiaCorrespondingForeign Trade Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.” IfsWorldKindPlayNightWeekMonthsEuropeClubsBoringAround The WorldJapanOne NightBrazil Author:Tiesto
“Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.” IfsWorldPayFiveMonthsEuropeWesternJapanAustraliaMore MoneyWestern WorldBali Author:Rita Gelman
“I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.” TwoSchoolYouthMonthsMy FriendsEuropeTrainMarketingPursuedTwo Months Author:Kevin Nealon
“America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.” IfsWorldCountryAmericaBeautifulGirlDoorsHugeMonthsModelsEuropeStructureFinancialCampaignsBudgetsParisOther CountriesClientsVersusEasternFertileImbalanceOther GirlEastern EuropeFertile Ground Author:Michael Flutie
“Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.” MenYearsTwoRunningPresidentPartyNumbersLeaderMonthsSixSpringEuropeElectionFranceShockPensPresidencySix MonthsMarie Author:Rachel Maddow
“The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.” TwoBigsGamesMonthsSummerEuropeFarmsSpainHookedTwo Months Author:Peter Menzel
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj
“Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's external borders early on, but they languished in the Council for months. As you can see, the Commission isn't asleep. Oftentimes it has to wake up the others.” StillsMonthsEuropeWake UpStuckBordersAgreementRefugeeCouncilTurkeysGreeceProposal Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.” SaidDreamPoliticalLinesIssuesFocusFrontsCrimeMonthsKingsSpeechEuropeCrisisYeahUnionsAcceptedGreekIslandsTreatmentPrizePopeLutherEuropean UnionMigrantsOutspokenPolitical IssuesPrestigiousScolded Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe last month for the G20 summit, Rex Tillerson said less than 50 words in total in response to press questions.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsLastsMonthsEuropePressesResponseSecretaryConferencesSummitArrivalsPress Conferences Author:Rachel Maddow
“After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.” SchoolMonthsDramaEuropeSevenPerformingJulietSeven Months Author:Clive Owen
“What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.” WorldFirstsDifferentMotherBrotherMonthsSixEuropeBrothers And SistersSix MonthsDifferent Worlds1930s Book:Self-portrait Source: Self-portrait
“In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.” WorldWarHappenedTroubleMonthsOceanEuropeTendenciesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiThreatening Book:Self-portrait Source: Self-portrait
“Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?” ReasonFoundNovelAdventureMonthsCoupleLimitsEuropeSpeedOperaPorscheSpeed Limits Author:Anne Rice
“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.” WellsHas BeensTwoMatterTurnsNationsEasyPolicyGreatnessMonthsEuropeIslamEastPursueFranceGuidanceAspirationPoisonDefeatedIntervalsInappropriateRenouncePretensionUnifiedFebruaryUnificationNorth Africa Author:Adolf Hitler
“Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.” IfsWellsWarCountryMomentsHumanityNamesNationsShareMonthsCivilizationEuropeDestructionMajorityPeacefulGermanyProtestPatriotEnglishmenGreat WarCountrymen Book:Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16 Source: Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16