Word: landlessness
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When Communists' votes helped President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla into office last November, he paid off with three Cabinet posts-the first for the comrades in South America. Of the three, Agriculture pleased the party most. The wretched lot of Chile's 500,000 landless campesinos invites Communism. For a day's work, the average field hand gets 35?, a large piece of hard bread, and, occasionally, a sack of beans. His home (on most farms) is a small, windowless, mud-&-thatch hut, with a dirt floor...
...landless 40, cots and space in the Hemenway Gymnasium have been allocated with no other hope than an announcement from Watson that they should be in rooms by the end of February...
...leader reversed the tide of reaction. Lázaro Cárdenas, a Tarascan Indian, finally made good some of the revolution's promises of land for the landless. In six years he expropriated and apportioned to peasants 45 million acres, over twice as much as all his revolutionary predecessors. But corruption and a shortage of plows and tractors and know-how held production down...
...weather ships will be scattered at 500-mile intervals around the landless region north of the Azores. They will not be anchored (most of the Atlantic is far too deep), but will cruise in 100-mile-wide circles. Their primary duty: to observe weather conditions by all known methods, including "radio sonde" balloons followed upward by radar. They will also give weather reports and radio "fixes" to both ships and airplanes...
Down with Cavalry Horses. To clinch the argument, Ottavi, at the head of 12,000 landless peasants, seized 500 more hectares of the horse farm. Said Ottavi: "We don't want any more wars; we don't want cavalry horses; we want bread...