Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once in the commune, members cease to have a regular trade, become all-purpose production units. In Honan's pilot Sputnik Commune (which occupies an area two-thirds the size of Long Island), 43,000 members are divided into 27 "production corps" and 87 smaller "production battalions." At harvest time almost everyone is sent into the fields. In slack agricultural seasons or in their "spare time" they are put to dam building, construction of primitive factories, or industrial labor. All members of the commune get regular military training, and even when not on duty they must move...
...government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...
After the Reds proclaimed their shortlived ceasefire, the villagers emerged from underground, and farmers went back to the fields to harvest what was left of their millet, sweet potatoes and peanuts. "If there is a lack of anything," Red China's Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai broadcast to the people of Quemoy, "just tell us and we shall give it to you. It is time now to turn from foe to friend...
...William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene McCarthy's capture of Republican Ed Thye's senatorial seat was the harvest of years of organizational planning (see Minnesota). The organizational lesson: party precinct work...
...Wild Harvest. In the crowded souks of Arab Jerusalem, over the endless small cups of thick coffee, there were two explanations of Hussein's "vacation": that he had decided that it was hopeless to keep up the struggle and would go into exile; that he genuinely felt that order was now sufficiently restored so that he could risk absenting himself for a while. The optimists hold that Nasser is reluctant to take over Jordan because he would then be burdened by half a million Palestine refugees as well as by the economic load now borne by the U.S. They...