Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifesto, a twelve-page pamphlet, had a red & white cover and a red & white program inside. Doctrinaire Socialists were promised a little more nationalization: sugar, cement, cold storage facilities and water supply (about a third of Britain's water systems are still privately owned). But the emphasis was on welfare, not state ownership. The greater part of the manifesto talked pleasantly of full employment, child welfare, and the "full and free development of every individual person...
...Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa, "We don't have the money to run it," he claims. "I just hope the Generalissimo will ship...
...More Slogans. A similar question on expense limits was raised concerning various anti-nationalization publicity drives conducted by private business. Britain's cement tycoons, for instance, decided that they would cease stamping cement bags with the slogan "Don't Mix Nationalization With Cement...