Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours went by, the conservative South Pole developed an ever stronger magnetic field. Behind Byrd's bill was a remarkably solid bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson pointedly made no effort to use his vote-pulling power on Kennedy's behalf. Moreover, a cluster of liberal Democrats whose votes might have helped were not even in town for the debate, e.g., Tennessee's Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas...
Declaring that "crisis, unemployment and disunity" are "discrediting" the "imperialist world," Liu described with confidence and sober optimism the prospects for Communist China and the Soviet bloc. With repeated quotations from Marx, Lenin and Mao Tse-tung (who was among the 1,000-odd delegates present), Liu urged increased production to surpass Britain in 15 years. His new slogan: "Hard work for a few years; happiness for a thousand." He predicted more than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print...
...Kremlin for a big socialist camp meeting. In a general tightening-up to mesh satellite economies into Russia's forthcoming revised seven-year plan. Eastern European countries were directed to drop pet national industrial projects and produce what they can produce best. For the first time Soviet-bloc economic integration was extended to Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet...
...Four countries in the free world-Italy, Indonesia, France and India-together concentrate four-fifths of the Communists outside the Soviet bloc...
Bonn also turned down the Egyptian demand to buy more Egyptian cotton; West Germany's textile factories still seem to get as much Egyptian cotton as they need by buying at cut-rate prices from the Soviet-bloc countries, which got the cotton from Egypt in payment for Red arms to Nasser...