Word: beginninges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the midst of this turmoil, young Adnan Menderes confined his energies to the management of his estate. He was often seen riding across his fields at midnight for a last check. "He learned on the farm," says a friend, "that the work went best when he tended to it...
Boldly, Adnan Menderes set out to alter all this-at first by his announced program of relying on free enterprise. He rewrote Turkey's laws to encourage foreign investment by such means as easy profit transfers and the promise of generous exploitation terms to anyone who found oil. He...
From the beginning of his strongman career in 1948, Perez Jiménez believed the reverse. "My country," he liked to say, "is not ready for democracy." He took the profits of Venezuela's oil-fed prosperity, lavished them on jobmaking monuments, public buildings, superhighways, military officers' clubs...
Larrazabal's difficulties in forming even this first, most temporary kind of government gave a strong hint of greater troubles to come. Since its beginning in 1830, Venezuela has been controlled by a long line of strongmen. To make the possibility of civilian government even more remote, Pé...
THIS is the beginning of a revolution in swine raising," said Kansas City, Mo. Packer Arthur B. Maurer last week. The revolution: a new way of raising hogs called contract farming. Contract farming, though new to the pork industry, is not new to U.S. agriculture; it was started in the...