Word: landlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little statesman who, in 1946, had stood up at Lake Success and successfully demanded that the Russians clear out of the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Until this week, Ala was in charge of a generous and sense-making program of parceling out land, owned by the Shah, to landless peasants. Parliamentary confirmation of Hussein Ala was promptly voted...
Better roads link farms to markets. A quarter of a million acres of land has been distributed to landless peasants, and farm credits are being increased. The southern cotton belt is now mechanized. An EGA agricultural mission has introduced better seed grains, better breeding stock, better farming methods. Turkish farmers eagerly accept the new techniques. Last week Ali Kumyol, 42, a heavy-set farmer from Çorlu in Thrace, proudly displayed his John Deere tractor, said it enabled him to double his wheat and barley production. "For the first time since my marriage, I can afford to keep my wife...
...playground] is only a tiny drop in the bucket of things that are needed by so many people . . . throughout the Philippines. And it is need . . . that is causing discontent within these islands and proving a fertile breeding ground for Communist agitators. For what does Communism promise a hungry, landless, debt-ridden, discontented person? Why, a full stomach, some hectares of land, cancellation of what he owes-and a better way of life. Is it any wonder that people who are without hope listen to the sound of these Pied Pipers...
...Communist supported Hukbalahap revolt in central Luzon is gaining popular following among the large landless agricultural class. Government controls designed to stop growing inflation have only hindered the progress of business. The treasury is empty, school teachers go unpaid, and large construction projects are at a standstill...
...found battered and dying on a roadside. He had been hit on the head with an iron bar, kicked in the belly with nailed boots because he had urged farm laborers to secede from the CGIL. In May 1949, Anselmo Martoni, 30, a moderate Socialist, urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard. A month later in Rome, Martoni made an impassioned speech before fellow Socialists, helped sway them toward secession from...