Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Federation's Future. Chief Minister Manley firmly believes that Jamaica's economy can support the growing demand. He has launched an island-wide land reform program, buying land from big holders and distributing it to peasants. With irrigation projects, expert advice and new crops, he hopes eventually to make Jamaica's 2,000,000 tillable acres prosperously support 2,000,000 people. His slogan: "For every man an acre and for every acre...
...written with the advice of U.S. farm experts, makes many changes. Recognizing that one good solution is to get the landless mountain peasants onto fertile, government-owned lowlands (which can grow three crops of corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast...
This is the challenge from the rice roots. It exists apart from the challenge of Communism and would demand Western action even if the Soviet Union were not selling a new brand of expansionism. But since the Soviet Union has already entered Asia and Africa with rubles, technicians, and machines, the U.S. is faced with an even more urgent task. For the twin purposes of containing Communism and helping under-developed nations to lift their standards of living have coalesced from Japan to Mexico. President Eisenhower's "Atoms-for-Peace" plan is one daring response to the challenge; President Truman...
...belief that no man was better than another, and hence should be paid no more. In the Israeli economy, teachers, doctors, civil servants and other professionally trained men were all paid workmen's wages. Any attempt to raise the scale for professionals is promptly met by an equal demand on the part of organized labor...
...tons lost by strikes last year. By 1958 world copper capacity should be 15.7% above the 1955 level (2,928,000 tons). In Washington last week Government agencies were uniformly hopeful that the copper squeeze will end by midyear as a result of increased supply and slackening demand in some industries. However, few users put off orders in the hope that plentiful copper is just around the corner. Even without strikes, many argued, long-term demand for consumer goods in the U.S. and underdeveloped countries abroad will continue to keep the pressure on price and supplies...