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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...
...toward the big landholders. In answer to hints that the law might bring civil war, it issued a decree last week forbidding any citizen to carry arms. And its congressional backers, led by Communist Victor Manuel Gutiérrez, wrote another amendment into the bill: "Landowners who oppose the agrarian reform law by violent or subversive means will be totally expropriated by the government without regard to the limitations referred...
When it comes to boasting of their "agrarian reforms," Chinese Communists like to point to Hupeh province in South China, and to the farmers of Hsi Shui county in particular...