Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begging for Jobs. Between April and last month, 500,000 peasants were sent back to their villages. In one month, 35,000 pedicab and rickshaw men "volunteered" to migrate to northern Kiangsu; in one day 4,000 sampan dwellers left for inland cities. The government press reported proudly that 80% of the city's university students and flocks of physicians were begging for frontier jobs...
...million for navigation and flood-control features, that return no profit. John Day would have a capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts of power (twice the potential of Bonneville Dam), permit slackwater commercial navigation 328 miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean to the wheat-growing Inland Empire...
Early vote returns, heavily weighted with big-city votes from Rio and São Paulo, gave Millionaire Politico Adhemar de Barros a temporary lead, but Kubitschek forged slowly ahead after reports began coming in from the inland states, notably Minas Gerais. The count early this week: Kubitschek 2,277,000, Army General Juarez Távora 2,112,000, Barros...
...Gulf, Standard of California. Standard (N.J.), Pure Oil and Cities Service all add to their workers' kitty with as much as 50% worth of stock or bonds. Other companies, while helping their workers buy stock, also do their best to educate them about possible dangers. Sample quote from Inland Steel's booklet: "Buying stocks involves risk . . . Before you buy, you should give consideration to a family insurance plan . . . And it's possible you should begin a home-financing program before investing in stocks...
...stock drops in value, many companies provide truck-sized loophole's to let workers escape from their payments. Inland Steel, Delta C & S Air Lines, Atlanta's Citizens' & Southern National Bank and Dow Chemical all hold the stock until the final payment is made; then if a worker decides that he does not want the stock, his money is returned...