Word: lin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be sufficient if you grow enough to keep yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote him as a landlord during the reinvestigation. He said: 'I really dare not lend out grain again...
...late wife's estate, Bing Crosby bowed out of racing to raise some hard cash. Of his 65 race horses put up for auction in Hollywood, 58 were sold in two days for $85,000, which Crosby will split with his partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property he had piled up himself. At his Nevada ranch, Bing shrugged, "Taxes are taxes...
...Communist General Lin Piao, Mao's No. 1 man, came to address the group. "All you comrades came here for the Revolution, right...
...more worth saying, but the good grey Times, in its own lofty brand of sensationalism, all but shook itself apart in keeping the story alive. Its Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury quoted unnamed "diplomatic observers" to imply that the U.S., after all, is responsible for the cold war. Perhaps Sta lin has in mind "putting his nation in the role of an actual mediator in the Korean negotiations," speculated Salisbury. Then he added: "It might work out better than some in the West would suppose. The Russians are very serious about such obligations...
...will entail higher taxes and greater economy in state industries. Capital for the operation: the people's savings and the workers' sweat. Coinciding with Kao's appointment was a power-ingathering order abolishing six regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there is nothing to show that Kao Kang's shuffling dragon is clothed in anything more than paper...