Word: ductions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Salvador Allende pro claimed a Day of National Dignity and declared: "Now we will be the owners of our own future, truly the masters of our destiny." Chileans confidently predicted that under state management copper pro duction will jump to 840,000 tons this year, compared with 640,000 tons in 1970, and the projection is not considered unrealistic...
...workers did not have the one incentive that might have galvanized them into greater effort: consumer goods. Pro duction of household and personal articles increased, but not nearly enough. One result has been a flourishing black market. Westerners in Russia are regularly offered outrageous prices for their clothing, even though buyers and sellers run the risk of being imprisoned. Food prices on the legal "free markets" have jumped so high (cucumbers: $7.50 per lb.) that people living in southern regions find it profitable to hand-carry some delicacies to Moscow...