Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expansion. Nehru is a socialist and his dreams for India revolve around what he calls "the ideal of a socialist society." The First Five-Year Plan, a relatively modest $5 billion program, was not really socialistic. Its proudest achievement: good planning, hard work and good weather have increased food production 18%-for the first time in history relieving India's peasant masses of the threat of famine. The plan strove to fill the most urgent needs of India's millions, pumped the bulk of its money into irrigation, electric power, transport and housing, only 8% into industry...
...Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet Nam as an economic leech that they wish would go away. With floods and typhoons wiping out crops, overcrowded North Viet Nam cried for food even more loudly than it did last summer when Ho returned from a trip to Peking and Moscow loaded with good will, but not a grain of rice...
...tallied, the apparent winner was sometime Physician Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, grandson of a Silesian immigrant, ex-governor of Minas Gerais State, candidate of a patchwork left and center coalition. Middle-Roader Kubitschek ran with Communist endorsement, which, in public, he neither accepted nor rejected. His slogan: "Power, Transportation and Food." Brazil can use more of all three...
Both problems stemmed from a food-speculation scandal, in which an old friend of the President cornered markets in corn and beans with government help (TIME, Aug. 22). The government has reacted chiefly by stepping up police "security" measures, most of them aimed at curbing criticism...
None of the abundant policemen have set to work on the corn and beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation...