Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projects as the African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were made to send 150 Congolese youths to Moscow's new Friendship University in the autumn. And at least 1,000 African students have already been installed in schools in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa and Leningrad under the crash program begun three years...
...desperate effort-to reverse this tide. Red China's masters have switched the line to read "plant more and harvest more." are plugging a crash vegetable-growing program. Kiangsi province has ordered 480,000 civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities." To remedy the fertilizer shortage, commune dwellers are being urged to raise pigs for their own profit, following the slogan: "More pigs, more fertilizer; more fertilizer, more grain; more grain, a future...
...says that the U.S. is "not applying itself realistically" to the problem of educating Africans. Visiting the U.S. to raise plane fare for 250 Kenyans who have scholarships to American colleges next fall, Mboya called on Candidate John F. Kennedy at Hyannisport and said: "What we need is a crash program to train thousands to man our new government...
...Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington, Moscow and London, he obtained promises to provide the planes to deliver the supplies. From East and West he summoned veterans of other U.N. enterprises to help keep the docks open, the water pure, the lights...
...rate of growth is big enough; along with Democrats, Rockefeller talks of favoring a forced annual growth rate of 5% or 6%, while Republicans contend that anything beyond the average annual rate for the past 50 years (3%) is manipulation, and could lead to inflation and a bad crash...