Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Communism, the people are getting even less meat and dairy foods than under the Czar. Russia's human population has climbed 50% in the past 37 years (to 210 million), but its livestock supply has fallen 2.6%. The hard figures (in millions) as given by Khrushchev...
...already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned products: over 550% more for cattle and poultry, 200% more for butter, 25% to 40% more for vegetables. "Increase the material interest of the peasant," Khrushchev ordered...
...Among last year's projects: libraries for schools in Jordan, aid to displaced Volksdeutsche farm families in France, a study of the Turkish-speaking Moslems in the Soviet Union, a program for livestock improvement in Egypt, a survey of the problem of refugee Chinese intellectuals...
Servant of the Crown. On Norfolk Island, 870 miles off the Australian coast, the inhabitants were looking for one man to be their 1) forest ranger, 2) police force, 3) bailiff, 4) jailer, 5) examiner of livestock and slaughterhouses, 6) inspector of noxious weeds...
...state planning," were released to consumer retail channels. Many socialized plants and farms were returned to private operation. In the Leipzig area alone last week, according to a Communist announcement, 70 shops, 40 factories, 15 wholesale houses and 46 collectivized farms were handed back to their old owners. Crop, livestock and food quotas imposed on farmers were cut back as much as 25%. Release was promised to "the great majority" of workers who were arrested after the June 17 strikes if they would promise to be good in the future. In frantic, almost comic haste, the Red puppets toured factories...