Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Development Fund has collected nearly $4 million in its effort to raise $10 million for the College by 1965, according to a report issued recently by Robert I. Hunneman '28, national chairman of the drive...
Last fall Red China was dumping cement in Hong Kong at uneconomic prices in an effort to drive Japanese producers out of the market; today Red Chinese cement cannot be bought in Southeast Asia at any price. Indonesia is told that it will get its promised 200,000 tons of rice this year not from China but through Russia, and that it must pay $8.40 a ton more for it. Everywhere Chinese Communist commercial agents are turning away orders for products that require extensive hand labor...
...their drive to herd China's 500 million peasants into military-style "people's communes" and in their boundless enthusiasm for economic "shock programs," the Communists have come close to negating their nation's greatest economic asset-its teeming manpower...
...crying need for a sensible priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled up last year, think what's going to happen...
Last week Continental ended its most ambitious drive to recruit "65-Plus" policyholders in seven states-New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware-and the District of Columbia. Previously Continental had offered the plan in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and California, and it is expected to add more states soon...