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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communism work, Amana voted in 1932 to try capitalism. Land and shops were organized under a worker-owned corporation, which paid wages according to skill (up to $2 an hour now), sold the communal homes to members, let each family choose its own food, source of income, way of life. The new corporation, despite the Depression, promptly raised production of farm products, furniture and handmade textiles (1958 sales: $10 million). Profits replaced red ink the first year, rose to levels ($268,000 in 1958) that provided plow-back capital and paid dividends. Mechanic George Foerstner, who designed the colony...
...single year," boasted Communist economists last October, "is one of the greatest victories of man over nature in history!" Soviet Russia might talk of outproducing the U.S., but Red China cockily promised to overtake Britain within a few years. Having herded 500 million people into the ant-heap life of "people's communes," Red China boasted that it had been able "completely to bury the so-called 'law of diminishing returns' which bourgeois economists claim to be universally true...
...yearly in Canadian income taxes, built up some of Canada's most profitable exports, e.g., nearly $1 billion in pulp and paper sales annually to the U.S. Said Kearns: "We have never regarded capital invested in Canadian enterprises as anything but Canadian in its participation in the national life...
Making good on a promise given in 1956, Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama posed for Hungarian Artist Elizabeth Brunner at his refuge in Mussoorie, India-the first time the god-king had permitted an artist to paint his portrait from life since his flight from Lhasa. Last week he saw the result: a likeness showing him seated before a religious scroll, holding a Buddhist prayer book...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at 70 miles an hour." Nate's "parish" covered a growing number of Protestant mission stations in eastern Ecuador. "It is our task," he wrote, "to lift these missionaries up to where five minutes in a plane equals 24 hours on foot . . . It's a matter of gaining precious...