Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces proves beyond a doubt the robustness of her economic organism, the solidity of her social structure, and the suppleness of her institutions." A more dispassionate judgment was the London Economist's which saw in Paul Reynaud's recovery no vindication of "liberal capitalism" but a drive "towards a war economy," the limitation of consumption and other indications that French democracy is not too robust...
...leaven of change at the War's end left the peasants in possession of 95% of Russia's cultivated land. They held it while the harvests fell to 58% of their pre-War average, worked it in 25,000,000 homesteads until the drive to collectivize the farms began in 1929. The first Five-Year Plan called for a 20% collectivization in 1930. But when lower taxes, credit, use of farm machinery, did not move the kulaks, the more prosperous peasants, the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" was decreed on Jan. 5, 1930. Thereafter...
...called Dizziness from Success, called a. halt. But the waves of motion set up did not subside: 4,000,000 families moved back to their farms by May. In the Central Black Soil region-Russia's richest farmland-64% of collectivized families fled home two months after the drive ended. And although, the next year, 58% of peasant households were in collectives, livestock continued to be slaughtered until it was made a capital offense, until the 1933 livestock population was smaller than it had been in 1922, until 5% of collective farm income was devoted to repaying peasants...
...long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying...
...Administration's main preparations for a drive against Depression were made at hearings of the Temporary National Economic (monopoly) Committee. The cue for them was given by Franklin Roosevelt himself. To Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, the Committee's chairman, he wrote...