Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business. Last year, a $2 bet on every one of his choices would have brought a profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics, to him, is a vast irrelevance; horse racing, to the Worker, is a questionable capitalist diversion.* But back in 1935, the paper needed to boost circulation, and the Worker decided to cater to a weakness of the workers. The editors looked around for a horse handicapper, and there was Alf. Then unemployed, he had been picking winners ever since he was nine (when he selected Coronach...
Deviate. In Shanghai, after he had tried to win two girls by posing as a wealthy capitalist, Lo Heng was judged "hopelessly corrupted,'' expelled from the Communist Party...
...Budapest, a man asked a party propagandist the difference between a capitalist and a Communist. "That's easy," said the comrade. "The capitalist loves money above all else, while the Communist values the human being." "I see," said the student. "That's why capitalists lock up their money, while the Communists lock up people...
...People, All for Country, under Premier Diem!" TIME Correspondent John Mecklin asked one Camau villager, however, who Diem was. "Don't know." Had he heard of Communist Ho Chi Minh? "He's President." Had he heard of the U.S.? "The Viet Minh say you're all capitalists." What's a capitalist? "They make people poor." Wreath on the Monument. Gingerly Diem's young Nationalist army moved step by step more deeply into Camau-the towns first, then the villages, then out by powered boats along the bayous. They had been carefully briefed (with U.S. assistance...
...Since Communist and Socialist countries do not enjoy a free market, they are at a disadvantage when compared to a capitalist country. Those nations are hampered by their controlled markets, and cannot make the best judgments in capital investments...