Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
...only other sizable chunk of Littauer's student "body" is the group in the agricultural extension program of John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and dean of American agrarian economists. Over the past five years, this program has tried to bring a little bit of Harvard influence into many of the six million farm homes in the United States. Picked from state agricultural extension agencies and financed by the Carnegie Corporation, Black's 25 or more students do intensive work in their special farm field, and also dip into the more advanced theory of agricultural economies. These academic...
Other incentives include government supported gliderports where industrious workers and students may rest and fly for two or three weeks vacation. Labor unions run resorts on the Dalmatian coast for the "champion" workers. Few resorts exist, however, because Tito's effort to build an industrial complex in the agrarian south has not been very successful...
...used the 16th Congress (1930) to speed up the First Five-Year Plan, announced at the previous congress. The 17th Congress (1934) gauged the brutal success of enforced collectivization, which cost millions of peasants their lives, and the emergence of Russia (by Stalin's verbal bookkeeping) from "an agrarian country" into "an industrial country...
...determined not to fall into another fight with a powerful and predatory next-door neighbor 66 times their size (in area, Finland is the sixth largest country in Europe; in population it is the third smallest). Under popular, 81-year-old President Juho Kusti Paasikivi and able, unpopular Agrarian Premier Urho Kekkonen, the Finns have learned to walk the nerve-racking path of independence like tight-rope walkers...