Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old girl refugee from Chekiang province said that only once this year had she been able to buy "shoes, stockings, washcloths and a tube of toothpaste. We got only eight feet of cotton cloth annually." Another woman refugee burst into tears when she spoke of friends "still suffering night and day back there...
...turmoil that was uprooting China's ancient society, out of the alternation of hope and terror, of promised reward and present punishment, Communist China worked single-mindedly toward Mao's goal-and achieved comparative miracles. In eight years, the cotton harvest was up 30% from its prewar high to 1,600,000 tons. Steel production rose nearly six times above the 1943 peak of 900,000 tons,* although even this spectacular advance brought China's per capita steel production only to 4% of Japan's. With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started...
...tasks of plowing, weeding or reaping. At the blare of a bugle, they dropped their tools and seized rifles (unloaded) for close-order drill. At the sound of whistles again, they fell to a new set of tasks, hurrying to simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment...
...LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged...
...decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children die of such simple maladies as measles and diarrhea...