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...property. The list of kulaks has to be abolished. The movement into cooperatives has to be slowed down. Those members who desire to become individual farmers again can do so ... Fines amounting to 600 million forints [approx. $50 million] were imposed on peasants [for delivery failure]. This we cancel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: On Good Behavior | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...estimate). By May 1952, when the original contract was to have been completed, K-F had delivered only one plane. Up to the present, added General Cook, it has delivered only 44 of the 134 planes originally called for. But the Air Force has made no move to cancel the contract in favor of Fairchild, which has already turned out 412 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Bogged-Down Boxcars | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...What about the Senate Appropriations Committee vote to cancel U.S. funds for the U.N. if Red China is admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: None Can Live Alone | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...asked about the dam, and Mrs. Mundt rattled off the facts & figures. A $14 million appropriation for the South Dakota dam had been dropped from the 1954 budget, she told Summerfield, and it was a pity. After all, $16 million had already been expended on the dam, and to cancel the project now would amount to an awful waste. Summerfield promised to help. Afterward, he sent a strategic note to "the right hands" and $8,250,000 of the appropriation was restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roll Back the Barrel | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Malta became vexed when its Prime Minister was assigned a place with representatives of colonies, instead of in Westminster Abbey with the other Commonwealth Prime Ministers. After the Maltese Assembly voted to cancel all coronation festivities on the island, and Maltese cinema audiences began booing newsreel pictures of the Queen and Philip, Prime Minister Churchill set things aright by assuring Malta's Prime Minister a place with the other P.M.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Big Day | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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