Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent Western visitors to the Peking area saw cotton blowing away unharvested while the local peasantry concentrated on rebuilding Peking's showy Tien An Men Square. The great campaign to produce steel and pig iron in homemade blast furnaces created even more widespread labor shortages. Factories producing textiles for export were obliged to cut out a shift in order to free workers to stoke the ubiquitous furnaces...
Concept for Chaos. Late last month, apparently aware of the crying need for a sensible priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled...
...varsity squash team opened its major campaign of the season yesterday afternoon in Philadelphia by soundly defeating Penn, 9 to 0. The Quakers could only pick up two games out of 27 as the varsity began sharpening up for the all-important Navy match today. Gerry Emmet, playing in the number one position for the first time this season, handily disposed of the top Penn player...
...prevent prevent incumbent influence, the Harvard Young Republican Club Planning Committee adopted a resolution yesterday stating that a club president must "play no public role in the campaign of any candidate for his office...
...distinction" and ''the thinking man," U.S. TViewers last week could add a brand-new advertising character: "the Massey-Ferguson kind of a man." As the first farm-equipment manufacturer to launch a network TV campaign, Toronto's Massey-Ferguson Ltd.. the world's largest maker of tractors and self-propelled combines, described their man as "a special kind of man; he's a doer, not a talker. He's a get-up-early, keep-'em-rolling kind...