Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia "synthesis"-a word he loves. A shrewd master of simplicity, he explains his country's "middleclass revolution" in notably simple terms: "We are giving property to the propertyless. Others who have too many possessions are being scaled down. Everyone, however, will not be on the same level. Instead, the middle class will be a broad band within which there will be plenty of room for private enterprise and initiative alongside state control and socialism...
...among landless Czechs and Slovaks. The last big estates (not many, since prewar Czechoslovakia carried out an extensive land reform) are vanishing. Agriculture is being rationalized-but not through the Soviet system of collectivization. The kolkhoz (collective farms), Communists agree, would be anathema to Czechoslovakia's peasant landowners. Instead, the Government is promoting farmers' cooperatives on a scale surpassing that of prewar days, when they counted 2,000,000 members...
...Subasich had in fact lost all but his title a month ago. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had expected him in London to present Yugoslavia's territorial demands. Black-haired, bespectacled Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 35, showed up instead. The Foreign Minister, it was explained, had suffered a stroke and was home abed. He had-a stroke of a kind. And he was at home-under house arrest...
Serge Koussevitzky, prestigious conductor of the Boston Symphony, had a heady idea: just 50? a year from each of New England's 30 million would provide the region with three major symphonies instead of one, every city with an opera-sized concert hall, every town with a chamber-music-sized hall...
...important question of what the Government's fiscal policy should be, the committee advocated a compensatory budget for the U.S.-i.e., a federal budget balanced over the business cycle instead of every year. With a calm assurance that will raise the hackles of conservatives, the committee said: "It is generally agreed that an annual balance of the budget is impractical...