Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...
...There will be no solution of the world problem until we abolish all national armies and navies," Van Doren claimed. He envisioned a United States with no army or navy and asserted that as long as such military organizations exist there is danger to the peace of the world...
...poor and ignorant man judges his lot by his past. Thus did China's ragged ricksha pullers judge the Government's lofty pronouncement that their work was "archaic, inhuman and wasteful of manpower," and the Government's three-year plan to abolish all rickshas in favor of pedicabs, trolleys and buses...
...pullers. Its membership fee is 5?; its boss is an oratorical, brown-gowned Kuomintang man named Chang. It was Chang's union which drew up and sent to the Government a petition voicing the ricksha men's fear and doubt over the plan to abolish rickshas...
Just 18 days after Premier Stalin made his not-yet-fulfilled election promise to abolish rationing and lower food prices, Moscow announced price slashes as high as 60% in foodstuffs. The cuts applied only to the commercial gastronomes, where groceries are sold (at high mark ups) to supplement standard 'rations. Bread and cigarets fell 50%, sugar 33%, coffee 40%, meat 20%, vodka and wines...